Love of Ibn Abi Rabia and his poetry

Ibn Abi Rabi''ah was not one of those who, when a loved one was absent from him, began to cry for him and long for him. This is the path of the grief-stricken poets, whose hearts were forever their helpers, and whose souls were their adversaries. These are the needy in the world of love, and the deprived in the state of youth, those who see Beauty is a shadowy shade, and then they are unable to co...