I saw a scholar who had fallen in love with someone and his secret was revealed. He endured much hardship and showed boundless patience.

Anyway, I said to him gently: I know that you have a reason for loving this person and your love is not based on a mistake; despite such a meaning, it is not worthy of the status of scholars to accuse oneself and endure the oppression of the rude.

He said: O friend! Keep your hand of reproach from the skirt of my life. I have pondered many times on this expediency that you see, and enduring his cruelty is easier than abstaining from seeing him, and wise men say: It is easier to set one's heart on striving than to avert one's eyes from observing.

Whoever cannot live without him

If he commits cruelty, it must be endured.

One day, out of desperation, I said to him, beware!

Many times since that day I have asked for forgiveness.

A friend does not forbid anything from a friend

I have set my heart on whatever is his desire.

If he calls me to himself with kindness

Or if he drives me away with anger, he knows best.