As for women, the knowledgeable people look at them and take attachment from them. The knowledgeable people’s longing for them is the yearning of each for its part, like the longing of homes for its inhabitants in which they have their life. And because the place in the man from which the woman was extracted, God preserves it by inclining toward her, so his longing for the woman is the yearning of the old and his longing for the young. As for taking attachment from them He takes it from them for them just as the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, took it when he commanded them to give alms, because he strives to save them when he saw that they were most of the people of Hell, so he felt pity for them wherever they were from him, as it is a person’s pity for himself, and because they are the place of formation for the image of perfection, so loving them is an obligation and an example of it, peace be upon him. < /p

The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers