Love

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?

What do you know of Love except the name?

Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,

and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.

Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:

it has no interest in a disloyal companion.

The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:

that root must be cherished with all one's might.

A weak covenant is a rotten root, without grace or fruit.

Though the boughs and leaves of the date palm are green,

greenness brings no benefit if the root is corrupt.

If a branch is without green leaves, yet has a good root,

a hundred leaves will put forth their hands in the end.