his color is the color of a passionate lover and he is undoubtedly infatuated with spices. god forbid that forgetting what we have learned should be our nature and disobeying god by drinking wine should be our nature and that sluggishness should be our characteristic. but the words of god almighty are sufficient for us and who is more truthful than god in speech about poets {have you not seen that they wander aimlessly in every valley? and that they say what they do not do?} . this is the testimony of god the almighty the compeller to them but the deviation of the poet from the level of poetry is a mistake.
لونه لون عاشق مستهام وهو لا شك هائم بالبهار ومعاذ الله أن يكون نسيان ما درس لنا طبعا، ومعصية الله بشرب الراح لنا خلقا، وكساد الهمة لنا صفة، ولكن حسبنا قول الله تعالى، ومن أصدق من الله قيلا في الشعراء {ألم تر أنهم في كل واد يهيمون. وانهم يقولون ما لا يفعلون} . . فهذه شهادة الله العزيز الجبار لهم، ولكن شذوذ القائل للشعر عن مرتبة الشعر خطأ.