ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Tihāmī Abū'l-Iʿyāsān. He has a famous divan of poetry. Due to the early death of his son, he composed the following elegy:
“The decree of death passes to the people.
This world is not a place to remain.
Because they could not bear me, those who envy me,
Due to the fire of distress arising in their chests,
I pity them greatly.
They looked at the blessings Allah gave me;
Their eyes look toward Paradise.
But their qalb (heart) is in the fire of Hell.”
Tihāmī also has a poem condemning the world:
“The world is established upon hardships.
Yet you want to obtain it purified from filth and troubles.
A person who tries to force time against its nature
Is like one seeking a burning ember within it.
When you hope for the impossible,
In reality, you are like one hoping to build a structure on the edge of a cliff.”
After the death of his son, the poet Tihāmī said:
“I am neighbors with my enemies, but he is neighbors with his Lord.
There is a great distance between his neighbor and my neighbors.”
According to Ibn Ḥallīkān, after the death of the poet Tihāmī, a man saw him in a dream in a beautiful state and asked him, “By what did you reach this rank?” He replied:
“By this couplet I reached this rank.”
“There is a great distance between his neighbor and my neighbors.”