help him for he has become due to his excessive worries such that paper ink and writing weep for him. and let no one say that the lovers patience with the beloveds humiliation is baseness of the soul for this is a mistake. we have learned that the beloved is not a match or equal so that he should be repaid for his harm. his insults and harshness are not things for which a person is reproached and whose memory remains throughout the ages. this does not occur in the councils of caliphs or in the seats of leaders so patience leads to humiliation and supplication leads to contempt. you may see a man charged with the slave girl whose slavery he owns and there is no barrier between him and transgression against her so how can one take revenge on her? the ways of resenting insults are other than this but that is only among the elite of men whose breaths are counted and whose meanings are followed.
أعنه فقد أضحى لفرط همومه يبكي له القرطاس والحبر والخط ولا يقولن قائل إن صبر المحب على ذلة المحبوب دناءة في النفس فهذا خطأ، وقد علمنا أن المحبوب ليس كفؤا ولا نظيرا فيقارض بأذاه، وليس سبه وجفاه مما يعير به الإنسان ويبقى ذكره على الأحقاب، ولا يقع ذلك في مجالس الخلفاء ولا في مقاعد الرؤساء، فيكون الصبر مستجرا للمذلة، والضراعة قائدة للاستهانة؛ فقد ترى الإنسان يكلف بأمته التي يملك رقها، ولا يحول حائل بينه وبين التعدي عليها، فكيف الانتصاف منها. وسبل الامتعاض من السب غير هذه، إنما ذلك بين علية الرجال الذين تحصى أنفاسهم وتتبع معاني