For this reason al-Rāzī’s heart became saturated with hatred for the Karrāmīs. Hence (1) he never wearies of mentioning them in every gathering and place, whenever the light east wind stirs.

In this same year (2) the Caliph’s favor was restored to Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn Abū’l-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, the foremost preacher (3) of his day and afterwards. He had earlier been banished from Baghdad to Wāsiṭ, where he stayed for five years; the townspeople benefited from him, (4) studied under him, and gained much. When he returned to Baghdad, the Caliph bestowed a robe of honor upon him and authorized him (5) to resume his customary preaching at the noble shrine beside the grave of Maʿrūf. The crowd that gathered was immense; even the Caliph attended, (6) and Ibn al-Jawzī opened with words of gentle reproach. That day he recited, among other things, these verses addressed to the Caliph:

Do not let the garden you yourself have planted go thirsty—(7)
the showers of your bounty have already watered it well.
Break not the arrow you have carefully fletched;
far be it from the builder of glory to undo what he has wrought.
If I have committed a fault—by the sanctity of his resting-place (8)—
then renew your pardon and waive what is past (9).
I once looked to you for the attainment of my desires;
today I ask for nothing but your good pleasure.

Among the verses he also recited that day (10) were:

We pined in separation for a season long,
but when we met again, it was as though we had never suffered.
We bristled when the nights wronged us,
yet they pressed on with us until we were reconciled.
Whoever has never lived again after death for even a day—
behold us: after we had died, we came to life once more.

In this same year the Caliph al-Nāṣir summoned Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-Shahrazūrī, the judge of Mosul, and appointed him Chief Judge of Baghdad.