Rumi's Masnavi - Tanquam mas super femina, and the infidel couching upon the dervish like a lion. [Like a male upon a female, and the infidel [sic: prisoner] couching upon the dervish like a lion.]

Tanquam mas super femina, and the infidel couching upon the dervish like a lion. [Like a male upon a female, and the infidel [sic: prisoner] couching upon the dervish like a lion.]

هم‌چو نر بالای ماده وآن اسیر ** هم‌چو شیری خفته بالای فقیر

With his hands tied, he was gnawing the Súfí's throat in obstinate strife.

دستها بسته همی‌خایید او ** از سر استیز صوفی را گلو

The infidel was gnawing his throat with his teeth: the Súfí lay beneath, senseless.

گبر می‌خایید با دندان گلوش ** صوفی افتاده به زیر و رفته هوش

The pinioned infidel, (fierce) as a cat, had wounded his throat without (using) a lance.

دست‌بسته گبر و هم‌چون گربه‌ای ** خسته کرده حلق او بی‌حربه‌ای

The prisoner had half-killed him with his teeth: his beard was soaked in blood from the throat of the dervish. 3755

نیم کشتش کرده با دندان اسیر ** ریش او پر خون ز حلق آن فقیر

(This is) like you, who under the violence of your pinioned fleshly soul have become as senseless and abject as that Súfí.

هم‌چو تو کز دست نفس بسته دست ** هم‌چو آن صوفی شدی بی‌خویش و پست

O you whose religion is incapable of (climbing) a single hillock, there are a hundred thousand mountains in front of you.

ای شده عاجز ز تلی کیش تو ** صد هزاران کوهها در پیش تو

You are dead with fear of a ridge of this (small) size: how will you climb up precipices (big) as a mountain?

زین قدر خرپشته مردی از شکوه ** چون روی بر عقبه‌های هم‌چو کوه

The warriors, (moved) by (religious) zeal, at that very instant ruthlessly put the infidel to the sword.

غازیان کشتند کافر را بتیغ ** هم در آن ساعت ز حمیت بی‌دریغ

They sprinkled water and rose-water on the face of the Súfí, that he might recover from his unconsciousness and the sleep (of his senses). 3760

بر رخ صوفی زدند آب و گلاب ** تا به هوش آید ز بی‌خویشی و خواب