Ibn Farid (1181-1234) was both a poet and a Sufi thinker. He went in and out of the officialdom with his father since childhood, and then lived alone. He once practiced with Sufi Christians in the valley of the weak in Mugetam Mountain. After wandering in the valley of Mecca for 15 years, he returned to Egypt. Ibn Farid has the reputation of "the king of love poems". His poems describe the love for God and the pursuit of truth, express the existence and significance of Sufi ideas by means of symbols and metaphors, praise Sufi as the fundamental love of God, and end with the unity of man and nature and self-love. Ibn Farid believes that love for the Lord transcends material things, and it is the fundamental and lofty love to pursue all beauty. People should completely obey and melt into love for the Lord, and being one with the Lord is enjoyment and happiness. Ibn Farid doesn't hide the pain of this kind of love. "His beginning is a disease of lovesickness, and his end is a fatal pain." This fatal pain is that the will of the lover melts into the will of the loved one. The dissolution of pain lies in love, and the pain of love is happiness. The giver and the beloved are alike. Love and being loved have no beginning and no end. His poems praise the love for the Lord and the drunken spiritual pleasure of the unity of man and the Lord. Farid's poem "Da Taiya", also known as "The Mysterious Process", has 76 lines. Later generations' comments on farid's poems are divided into two schools: literal and Sufi, while Rashid bin Dahadaha has integrated the views of the two schools. The following is a poem by farid:
The happiness of the eyes is the wine of love, and
A good face is a small handless cup. ......
Praise the lovers' names,
We lifted our glasses;
when there were no wine grapes,
we were already intoxicated with her. ......
The wine of love has drunk my eyes.
A small handleless wine cup seems to be the beauty of my peerless beauty.
a casual glance,
my heartstrings are pounding for her virtue. ......
The end belongs to the beginning
The end also contains the move forward
Everything is clear to me
What I hear and hear and what I see
I wake up from a dream, I am not him
I am my solitary existence
My appearance is unique
farid's views on art and beauty are different from Su Fei's. Farid expounded this view with poems:
Speak beauty directly, without any constraints;
Everything that is beautiful has its beauty elements;
Seeing that existence still fixes me, differences are people's likes and dislikes.
farid is good at exploring the connotation of things through superficial phenomena, crossing the process of time, tracing the origin of all things, associating the stars in Tianhe with the dust on land, and unifying thoughts and views from macro to micro. He believes that hearing also has visual function, and vision has tactile function. Ibn Farid opposed reincarnation and pantheism. As for other religions, farid holds this attitude:
Gather your opponents together for wisdom
You will extract all kinds of wisdom.