M3:3272 — گرم‌تر شد مرد زان منعش که کرد / گرم‌تر گردد همی از منع مرد

This couplet serves as a psychological pivot in the story. A young man has asked the prophet Moses for a dangerous gift: the ability to understand the language of animals. Moses, foreseeing disaster, tries to dissuade him (M3:3270). This beyt captures the man's immediate reaction, which Rumi then elevates into a general maxim about human nature.

The first hemistich, "The man grew more inflamed by the prophet’s warning," describes the specific event. The word garm-tar (literally "warmer") here means more eager, more insistent, and more fired-up with desire. The prohibition, meant to protect him, acts like fuel on his ambition.

The second hemistich, "from prohibition, a man’s desire is always burning," universalizes this observation. Rumi points to the paradoxical human tendency to desire things more intensely precisely because they are denied. This is a recurring theme in the Masnavi, echoing the Quranic idea that "Man was created hasty" (21:37) and the famous Arabic proverb often attributed to early Islamic sources, "Man is covetous of what is forbidden" (al-insānu ḥarīṣun ʿalā mā muniʿ). The warning from a prophet, which should inspire caution, instead triggers the man's ego and obstinacy, setting the stage for the tragedy that Moses foresees.