Praise

It has been reported:

قال سليمان بن عبد الملك لعمر بن أبي ربيعة ما يمنعك من مدحنا
قال إني لا أمدح الرجال إنما أمدح النساء

The Umayyad caliph, Sulaiman bin Abdul-Malik asked the poet Omar bin Abi Rabia: “What stops you from praising me?”
He replied: “I don’t praise men. I only praise women.”

[“Al-Aghaani”, of Asfahani 1/84].

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