Ibn Hazm ابن حزم
scholar · Córdoba, al-Andalus · 994–1064
A scholar of Cordoba. Around thirty he wrote The Ring of the Dove, a book on how love begins and ends, drawing on his own experience.
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Love has signs that the sharp-eyed follow and the clever find their way to. The first is the endless gaze. The eye is the wide gate of the soul: it searches out its secrets, tells its thoughts and makes plain what is hidden within. So you see the one who gazes never blink. He moves when the beloved moves, draws aside when the beloved draws aside, and leans wherever the beloved leans, like the chameleon with the sun.
وللحب علامات يقفوها الفطن، ويهتدي إليها الذكي. فأولها إدمان النظر، والعين باب النفس الشارع، وهي المنقبة عن سرائرها، والمعبرة لضمائرها والمعربة عن بواطنها. فترى الناظر لا يطرف، يتنقل بتنقل المحبوب وينزوي بانزوائه، ويميل حيث مال كالحرباء مع الشمسThe Ring of the Dove (Tawq al-Hamama), the chapter on the signs of love
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