Rumi's Masnavi - So long as you flee from the pedagogue, there is no meeting (with the boy), because there is no parting of the handsome boy from the pedagogue.

So long as you flee from the pedagogue, there is no meeting (with the boy), because there is no parting of the handsome boy from the pedagogue.

تا ز لالا می‏گریزی وصل نیست ** ز انکه لالا را ز شاهد فصل نیست‏

What should you know of the (sweet) savour of patience, O you of brittle heart—especially, of patience for the sake of that Beauty of Chigil?

تو چه دانی ذوق صبر ای شیشه دل ** خاصه صبر از بهر آن نقش چگل‏

A man’s delight is in campaigns (for Islam) and in the glory and pomp (of war); pathico voluptas e pene est. [A man’s delight is in campaigns (for Islam) and in the glory and pomp (of war); a (passive) catamite’s delight is from the penis.] 3150

مرد را ذوق غزا و کر و فر ** مر مخنث را بود ذوق‏از ذکر

Nihil est religio et precatio ejus nisi penis: his thought has borne him down to the lowest depth. [His religion and his prayer (is) nothing but the penis: his thought has borne him down to the lowest depth. ]

جز ذکر نه دین او و ذکر او ** سوی اسفل برد او را فکر او

Though he rise to the sky, be not afraid of him, for (it is only) in love of lowness (degradation) he has studied (and gained eminence).

گر بر آید بر فلک از وی مترس ** کاو بعشق سفل آموزید درس‏

He gallops his horse towards lowness, albeit he rings the bell (proclaims that he is going) aloft.

او بسوی سفل می‏راند فرس ** گر چه سوی علو جنباند جرس‏

What is there to fear from the flags of beggars?—for those flags are (but) a means for (getting) a mouthful of bread.

از علمهای گدایان ترس چیست ** کان علمها لقمه‏ی نان را رهی است‏

Timet puer quidam hominem corpulentum. “Ne timueris,” inquit, “O puer; ego enim vir non sum.” [About a boy’s fear of the corpulent man and how that person said, “Don’t be afraid, O boy, since I am not manly.”]

ترسیدن کودک از آن شخص صاحب جثه و گفتن آن شخص که ای کودک مترس که من نامردم‏

Juvenis robustus puerum deprehendit solum. Palluit timore puer ne forte homo impetum faceret. [A stout youth found a boy alone. The boy turned pale from fear of the man’s intention (to attack).] 3155

کنگ زفتی کودکی را یافت فرد ** زرد شد کودک ز بیم قصد مرد

“Securus esto,” inquit, “mi pulcher; tu enim super me eris.” [He (the man) said, “Be secure, O my lovely one, since you will be on top of me. ]

گفت ایمن باش ای زیبای من ** که تو خواهی بود بر بالای من‏

Etiamsi terribilis (aspectu) sum, scito me impotentem esse ad coitum: me sicut camelum conscende, propelle.” [“Although I am dreadful (in appearance), know me (to be an impotent) catamite. Mount me like a camel (and) thrust.”]

من اگر هولم مخنث دان مرا ** همچو اشتر بر نشین می‏ران مرا