and if it is said lover and beloved and delicious and delightful then its meaning is that every beauty and splendor and perfection is beloved and beloved to the one with perfection and there is no meaning to pleasure except the realization of the appropriate perfection. and whoever knows the perfection of himself in his encompassing of information if he encompasses it and in the beauty of his image and in the perfection of his power and the strength of his limbs and in sum his realization of the presence of every perfection that is possible for him if it were possible to imagine that in a single human being then he would be a lover of his perfection and delight in it. and his pleasure is only diminished by the estimation of nonexistence and deficiency for pleasure is not complete with what disappears or fears its disappearance and the first has the most perfect splendor and the most complete beauty since every perfection that is possible for him is present to him. and he is aware of that perfection with security from the possibility of deficiency and disappearance. and perfection
وإذا قيل عاشق ومعشوق ولذيذ وملتذ، فمعناه هو أن كل جمال وبهاء وكمال فهو محبوب ومعشوق لذي الكمال ولا معنى للذة إلا إدراك الكمال الملائم. ومن عرف كمال نفسه في إحاطته بالمعلومات لو أحاط بها، وفي جمال صورته وفي كمال قدرته وقوة أعضائه وبالجملة إدراكه لحضور كل كمال هو ممكن له، لو أمكن أن يتصور ذلك في إنسان واحد، لكان محبا لكماله وملتذا به، وإنما تنتقص لذته بتقدير العدم والنقصان فإن السرور لا يتم بما يزول أو يخشى زواله، والأول له البهاء الأكمل والجمال الأتم إذ كل كمال هو ممكن له فهو حاضر له. وهو مدرك لذلك الكمال مع الأمن من إمكان النقصان والزوال. والكمال