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The Complete Your madness, O eyes of narcissus, has consumed me. I have been afflicted by you, O reader, kiss me.
The beloved slept, and his wings withered, and your eyes are like unbreathed sighs.
And among some of them is a doe, jealous of the beloved, and from the beloved, and from time and place, the poet said: What incites I am jealous of you from my eye, from me, from you, and from your place and time.
And if I were to place you under my eyelids until the Day of Resurrection, it would not suffice me.
And his example is his saying: What incites And if I were to receive a blow, I would say, "My tormentor, by God, increase me."
And do not withhold your union from me, for I am jealous of you from you, so let him be preserved.
The Long And some of them praised the scholars for their attachment, so the conscience became jealous, saying: I am jealous of him from my conscience, so what is this love that has gone into the depths of my limbs?
So people distinguished themselves in guarding women because of the overwhelming jealousy they possessed.
And they saw that guarding a person who is mutilated is better than guarding a person.
And it is to him that souls find solace in this world and the hereafter, and the people most in need of that are kings and princes, because each of them has gathered all that he is capable of from women without regard. And since the kings of Sudan had the largest number of women and were the most generous in that regard, there were eunuchs in the king's possession. A number