some of the lovers due to the lack of this quality among the brothers and the lack of trust he had in them based on what he had experienced from people and that he had not lacked from those who confided in him something of their secret one of two ways either to disparage his opinion or to divulge his secret established solitude in place of companionship and he would isolate himself in a place far from companions and commune with the air and speak to the earth and find comfort in that as the sick person finds in groaning and the sad person in sighing for when worries come one after the other in the heart it becomes constricted by them and if nothing of them is expressed by the tongue and he does not find comfort in complaining he will soon perish of grief and die of sorrow.
ولقد كان بعض المحبين لعدمه هذه الصفة من الإخوان، وقلة ثقته منهم لما جربه من الناس وانه لم يعدم ممن باح إليه بشيء من سره أحد وجهين إما إزراء على رأيه وإما إذاعة لسره أقام الوحدة مقام الأنس، وكان ينفرد في المكان النازح عن الأنيس، ويناجي الهواء، ويكلم الأرض، ويجد في ذلك راحة كما يجد المريض في التأوه، والمحزون في الزفير؛ فغن الهموم إذا ترادفت في القلب ضاق بها، فإن لم ينص منها شيء باللسان، ولم يسترح إلى الشكوى لم يلبث ان يهلك غما ويموت أسفا.