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

(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

When he came to himself, he saw the party (of soldiers), and they asked him how it had happened,

چون به خویش آمد بدید آن قوم را ** پس بپرسیدند چون بد ماجرا

(Saying), “God! God! what is the matter, O worshipful one? By what thing wert thou made so senseless?

الله الله این چه حالست ای عزیز ** این چنین بی‌هوش گشتی از چه چیز

Was a half-killed pinioned infidel the cause of thy falling into such a senseless and abject plight?”

از اسیر نیم‌کشت بسته‌دست ** این چنین بی‌هوش افتادی و پست

He replied, “When I attempted (to cut off) his head in anger, the impudent fellow looked at me queerly.

گفت چون قصد سرش کردم به خشم ** طرفه در من بنگرید آن شوخ‌چشم

He opened his eyes wide at me: he rolled his eyes, and consciousness vanished from my body. 3765

چشم را وا کرد پهن او سوی من ** چشم گردانید و شد هوشم ز تن