M1:2446 — گفت خصم جانِ جان چون آمدم / بر سر جان من لگدها چون زدم

这句诗捕捉了男人内心深刻的悔恨与自我谴责的瞬间。在故事中，他本是一个满足于贫穷但灵性富足的苏菲（Sufi），但在妻子不断的抱怨和催促下，他最终同意为了物质生计而放弃自己的原则。就在他做出这个决定的那一刻，他立刻意识到自己犯下了严重的错误。

鲁米在这里运用了生动的意象：「灵魂的仇敌」（خصم جان جان）和「脚踢灵魂」（بر سر جان من لگدها زدم）。这并非指物理上的自残，而是一种精神上的自我背叛。男人的「灵魂」（جان）代表了他与神相连的、最真实、最宝贵的内在本质。通过屈服于妻子的要求——也就是屈服于世俗的诱惑——他感觉自己仿佛变成了自己灵魂的敌人，亲手摧残了自己最珍视的东西。这种强烈的悔恨感，在鲁米看来，本身就是一种神圣的警示。正如紧随其后的诗句所言，当神圣的判决（قضا）降临时，人的理智会被蒙蔽。这个男人的懊悔，正是他从被蒙蔽的状态中清醒过来的第一步。

This couplet marks a dramatic turning point in the story of the harpist and his wife. After harshly rebuking his wife for her worldly concerns, the man is immediately overwhelmed with remorse. Rumi portrays this as a moment of spiritual awakening, where the man realizes his outburst was not just an argument with his spouse, but an act of hostility against the divine source of life itself—the "Soul of all souls" (jān-i jān).

His anger, he now sees, was self-destructive. In lashing out, he was metaphorically "kicking" his own soul, harming his spiritual state and severing his connection to the divine will. The preceding verse describes this regret as being as sharp and sudden as the remorse of a tyrant's henchman at the moment of death. His wife's complaint, which he had dismissed as mere nagging, is now understood as a divine signal or trial that he has failed. His cry is one of horror at his own spiritual blindness and the violence he has just inflicted upon himself.