Arabic Poetry

The signs of love indicates that love can easily be seen from looking into one's eye. This adds proof to the idea that love is indeed possible at first sight. It is added that "the eye is the wide gateway of the soul."The central idea of this story is that love is blind and causes us to act differently. This is a central theme for the two readings. In The Dove's Necklace, the idea that people become more suspicious and un trustworthy when they are in love. They question and interrogate their lover to ensure the truth comes out. "Lovers have evil thoughts of one another ; each suspects every word the partner utters and misconstructs it willfully." Once love emerges it is seemed to be infinite. "Love cleaves to such people's hearts and once it lays hold of them never looses grip." Love causes us to act different than we normally would especially to your lover specifically. Betrayal is not easy to overcome as most lovers would act violent and act upon blind fury. Love at first sight is condoned in this reading. "Often it happens that love fastens itself to the heart as a result of a single glance." As a result of this it is assumed that love will not last as long when you fall in love after a single glance. "The quicker they grow, the quicker they decay."

The Dove's Necklace carries into the Poems. The two of them stress the importance of the cause of one's relationship and admiration for one another. "Ibn Hazm states, "It's only cause is the will, and no one knows any cause but that, when we discover that a thing is its own cause, then it is an existence that is unperishing."The Dove's necklace states, "Every love affair must necessarily have some original cause" It is stressed by the two readings that the cause and foundation for love plays a huge part in the outcome and success of it. In the poem Ibn Hazm it is stated that, "...When we find its cause is something other than itself its destruction will come about when we lack that which gave it existence." This quote is the central theme or idea for both stories, it's a common ground.