 and it was raised from him before that and women are flowers that if not taken care of diminish and a structure that if not taken advantage of is destroyed and therefore it was said by those who said the beauty of men is more truthful in truth and more firmly rooted and more pure in quality because of his patience with what if some of it encountered the faces of women would change the most severe change such as the heat the poisonous winds the difference in the air and the lack of a home and if i had attained from her the least connection and she had found some comfort for me i would have been mixed with joy or blamed with happiness but this aversion is what made me patient and consoled me.
وترفع عنه قبل ذلك؛ وإنما النساء رياحين متى لم تتعاهد نقصت، وبنية متى لم يهتبل بها استهدمت؛ ولذلك قال من قال إن حسن الرجال أصدق صدقا وأثبت أصلا وأعتق جودة لصبره على ما لو لقي بعضه وجوه النساء لتغيرت أشد التغيير، مثل الهجير والسموم والرياح واختلاف الهواء وعدم الكن وإني لو نلت منها أقل وصل وأنست لي بعض الأنس لخولطت طربا أو لمت فرحا، ولكن هذا النفار الذي صبرني وأسلاني.