M1:2448 — چون قضا بگذشت خود را می‌خورد / پرده بدریده گریبان می‌درد

这句诗描绘了一个人从被“天命”（قضا/qazā）蒙蔽到清醒后的状态。在鲁米的故事中，一位男子固执地拒绝了妻子对生计的恳求，但在神意的影响下，他暂时失去了理智和洞察力，就像被一层面纱遮住了双眼。

当这阵“天命”的风暴过去，他才如梦初醒，看清了自己行为的愚蠢和对妻子的不公。这种醒悟带来的悔恨是剧烈的，鲁米用两个生动的意象来表现：“噬啮自身”（خود را می‌خورد）和“撕裂衣襟”（گریبان می‌درد）。前者表达了内在的、自我折磨的痛苦；后者则是波斯文化中表达极度悲伤、悔恨或绝望的外在姿态。他撕裂的，不仅是衣物，更是先前那层让他盲目的“面纱”（پرده）。

因此，这句诗的核心思想是：人的自由意志与神圣宿命之间的复杂关系。在天命降临时，人可能会身不由己，无法分辨是非。然而，天命过后，人恢复了清明，就有责任去面对自己的行为并为此忏悔。这种忏悔，正是灵性觉醒的开始。

This couplet describes the state of a person after the moment of divine intervention has passed. In the preceding verses, Rumi explains that when God's Decree (qazā) is in motion, it clouds human judgment, making a person unable to distinguish right from wrong ("foot from head"). This beyt shows the painful aftermath.

Once the event is over and the fog of the Decree lifts, clarity returns with brutal force. The man in the story, having acted foolishly while under this divine influence, is now overwhelmed with regret. Rumi uses two powerful Persian idioms to convey this state. First, "he eats himself" (خود را می‌خورد), a visceral image for self-recrimination and being consumed by remorse. Second, "he tears his collar" (گریبان می‌درد), the classic physical gesture of extreme grief, despair, and anguish in Persian culture. He has lost all restraint (پرده بدریده), his shame and composure torn away by the force of his regret.

The verse illustrates a core theme in the Masnavi: the relationship between human free will and divine determinism. The pain of regret is the human experience of realizing one's own powerlessness and poor judgment in the face of a larger, divine plan that was temporarily veiled from sight.