know may god honor you that love has a rule over souls a permanent one a decisive authority an order that cannot be violated a limit that cannot be disobeyed a kingdom that cannot be transgressed obedience that cannot be turned away and an implementation that cannot be rejected. it dissolves bitterness solves the inevitable dissolves the solid disrupts the fixed dissolves the pericardium and permits the forbidden. i have seen many people who do not care about their discrimination nor do they fear a fall in their knowledge nor a disruption in their good choices nor a shortcoming in their intuition. they have described their beloveds in some of their qualities with what is not acceptable to people and is not acceptable in beauty so it has become their estrangement and an exposure to their whims and the ultimate goal of their approval. then those people have gone either by forgetfulness or by ignorance or by abandonment or by some of the accidents of love and their approval of those qualities has not left them nor has it become clear from them that they prefer them over what is better than them in creation nor have they inclined towards anything else. rather those qualities that were considered good by people became abandoned and forgotten by them until they left this world and it ended.
واعلم أعزك الله إن للحب حكما على النفوس ، ماضيا، وسلطانا قاضيا ، وأمرا لا يخالف، وحدا لا يعصى، وملكا لا يتعدى، وطاعة لا تصرف، ونفاذا لا يرد، وأنه ينقض المرر، ويحل المبرم، ويحلل الجامد، ويخل الثابت، ويحل الشغاف، ويحل الممنوع. ولقد شاهدت كثيرا من الناس لا يهتمون في تمييزهم، ولا يخاف عليهم سقوط في معرفتهم، ولا اختلال بحسن اختيارهم، ولا تقصير في حدسهم، قد وصفوا أحبابا لهم في بعض صفاتهم بما ليس بمستحسن عند الناس ولا يرضى في الجمال، فصارت هجيراهم، وعرضة لأهوائهم، ومنتهى استحسانهم، ثم مضى أولئك إما بسلو أو بين أو هجر أو بعض عوارض الحب، وما فارقهم استحسان تلك الصفات ولا بان عنهم تفضيلها على ما هو أفضل منها في الخليقة ، ولا مالوا إلى سواها؛ بل صارت تلك الصفات المستجادة عند الناس مهجورة عندهم وساقطة لديهم إلى أن فارقوا الدنيا وانقضت