all this has happened for more than one reason but to me it is a building that has collapsed on no foundation. that is because he who has emptied his mind in the passion of what he has not seen must when he is alone with his thoughts imagine for himself an image that he imagines and an eye that he sets up in front of his conscience and nothing else is represented in his obsession and his imagination has inclined towards it. if the vision occurs one day then the matter is confirmed or completely invalidated. both aspects have been presented and known. this happens most often among the ladies of the chambers who are veiled from the people of the houses with their male relatives. the love of women in this is more established than the love of men because of their weakness and the quickness of their natures to respond to this matter and its ability to control them. and about that i say a poem from it .
وهذا كله قد وقع لغير ما واحد، ولكنه عندي بنيان هار على غير أس، وذلك أن الذي أفرغ ذهنه في هوى من لم ير لابد له إذ يخلو بفكره أن يمثل لنفسه صورة يتوهمها وعينا يقيمها نصب ضميره، لا يتمثل في هاجسه غيرها، قد مال بوهمه نحوها، فإن وقعت المعاينة يوما ما فحينئذ يتأكد الأمر أو يبطل بالكلية، وكلا الوجهين قد عرض وعرف، وأكثر ما يقع هذا في ربات الخدور المحجوبات من أهل البيوتات مع أقاربهن من الرجال، وحب النساء في هذا أثبت من حب الرجال لضعفهن وسرعة إجابة طبائعهن إلى هذا الشأن، وتمكنه منهن؛ وفي ذلك أقول شعرا منه .