خلاصه ماشینی:
Thenceforth, till his death which occurred · during a sea expedition against infidels, he led a sober life; It is also held by one school of opinion that he was, in fact, a pious mari, amateur in his love and that his poetry does not mean what it profess zs, HIS POETRY AFTER making an appeal, in one of his poems, to the judges to accept the testimony of good-looking women, and reject that of the ugly, 'Umar says: Would that the ugly women had.
· the line as true, and there is no justification to believe it otherwise, then we shal] have to call al] his poetry of concrete pleasure as mere imaginative manipulations and seek our refuge in the Qur'anic maxim: "The poets say what they do· not do.
" But, it will seem very impudent and arbitrary on our part to do· so as his poems of concrete pleasure are so vividly realistic, so natural environs and so full of genuine exuberance of feeling as to belie all doubts of their reality.
· In his love-adventures, the mistress is invariably accompanied by three or four or five young maids ( usually slave-girls ) who act as her body-guard or comrades, the mistress herself being a noble lady of some influential Qurashid family ~omplish~d in beauty and decked in silken or woollen clothes.
These maids play the part of go-between or messenger between the lady and the poet and through them and sometimes with their request or express desire the meeting of the two lovers is arranged for the concrete · pleasure.