He said, praising his brother Muʿizz al-Dīn (1) Farukshāh ibn Shāhanshāh ibn Ayyūb—may Allah be pleased with them:

[In the kāmil metre]
Are you the one to pity a tearful, bewildered heart,
the rescuer of a lover whose refuge has collapsed?
How far-fetched that a slayer should show mercy to his slain
while the spearhead is still embedded in the victim’s heart.
Who has drunk of love’s disease as I have? (2)
Since the malady took hold of me, I have never been cured.
I have been tried by the beauty of a supple, bewitching figure
whose proud glance makes even fingertips grow gentle.
I look for a remedy for my infatuation in his very coquetry (3)
—but when has the pampered one ever softened toward his adorer?
How many sighs and groans I have breathed for his sake,
though lamenting could never bring me help.
I cherish wishes for union with him; were they but granted,
they would be fulfilled upon his delicious lips.
O you who stand alone in beauty, you have reached its furthest limit
just as I in yearning have reached the utmost extreme.
Many a circle of friends has blamed me for you, hoping I would desist (4)
—with their reproof they would tear me from love of life, yet you are life itself.
I weep before him; if he senses the heat of my distress,
he gasps, and I answer with a laughing glance.
O you whose perfections—and my state before you—
have left me bewildered, caught between reflection and restraint,
Two opposites have been joined for me in a single word:
in loving him it carries two meanings, both directed at him.
Are you not the lord of virtues? Were another to gain the least of them,
how proudly would he flaunt them—yet none may boast of them as I.

These are also the verses recited by Shaykh Tāj al-Dīn al-Kindī (5) concerning the execution of ʿUmārah al-Yamanī, when he sided with the unbelievers and atheists against King Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn and sought (6) to restore the Fāṭimid state. His plot was uncovered, and he was crucified along with the others who were crucified in the year 599 AH:

[From the ṭawīl metre] (7)
ʿUmārah, within Islam, laid bare a grievous crime (8)
and even swore allegiance to a church and to the cross (9);
He became a partner in idolatry with one called Aḥmad,
and so (10) he found himself on the gibbet of the cross—a crucified man.