that it remains and lasts as it is and it is not without remembering that from it and bringing that to mind in it and correcting the resolve and severity of the patience whenever that happens to it. for that is training and gradual and training and strengthening the soul to be less anxious when calamities occur due to the little that was of his habit and trust and reliance on the continuation of his beloveds in the state of their existence and due to the abundance of what he represented to the soul and its return and its comfort in imagining calamities before they occur. and in a similar meaning the poet says
أن تبقى وتدوم بحالها، ولا يخلو من تذكر ذلك منها وإخطار ذلك بباله فيها وتصحيح العزم وشدة الجلد متى حدث ذلك بها. فإن ذلك تمرين وتدريج ورياضة وتقوية للنفس على قلة الجزع عند حدوث المصائب لقلة ما كان من اعتياده وثقته وركونه إلى بقاء محبوباته في حال وجودها ولكثرة ما مثل للنفس وعودها وآنسها بتصور المصائب قبل حدوثها. وفي مثل هذا المعنى يقول الشاعر