M2:1932 — اژدهایی خرس را درمیکشید / شیرمردی رفت و فریادش رسید
M2:1932
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In this story, a spiritually courageous man—a true saint—intervenes to save a bear from being killed by a dragon.
This couplet opens a new scene in the story of the man who befriends a bear. Before their fateful friendship begins, the man first saves the bear's life. Rumi introduces the rescuer not as an ordinary man but as a shir-mard (lion-man), a term for a spiritual hero or saint, someone embodying divine courage and compassion.
The subsequent verses (M2:1933-1940) immediately generalize from this specific act of rescue to the universal nature of such saintly figures. They are described as the world's hidden pillars and physicians, who, like God's own mercy, rush to the aid of any suffering being without cause or condition. The lion-man's intervention is not a calculated act but a spontaneous expression of his essential nature, which is to seek out pain (dard) in order to be its remedy (davā).
This opening sets up the story's central tragic irony: the man who acts out of pure, selfless compassion will ultimately be killed by the foolish 'gratitude' of the very creature he saved.
- اژدها
- A dragon or great serpent. In the Masnavi, it often symbolizes the devouring power of the lower self (*nafs*), worldly attachments, or overwhelming calamity.
- درمیکشید
- Literally 'was pulling in/down'; idiomatically, 'was overpowering, slaying, consuming'. It captures the sense of the dragon dragging the bear towards its doom.
- شیرمرد
- Literally 'lion-man'. A term for a hero of great courage, but in Sufi contexts, it specifically denotes a man of God, a saint, or a spiritual master whose bravery is rooted in divine connection.
- فریادش رسید
- An idiom, literally 'reached its cry'. The phrase *be faryād-e kasi rasidan* means 'to come to someone's aid' or 'to answer a cry for help'.
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