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9. Story of a dervish molesting a youth

The two (brothers) did not leave that house for celibates: they lay
down to sleep there for fear of (meeting) the night-patrol.. One
night Sodomite stood up in a crowded room. He walked slowly

and removed the bricks lecherously.

Why have you put these bricks?, he asked. I am a sick boy and
because of my weakness I took precautions and made here a place to
lie down." .. "Why," said he, "where can I go? for wherever I go, perse-
cuted (as I am),

Some foul ungodly miscreant like you springs up before me like a
wild beast. The dervish-convent, which is the best place—not (even)
there do I find safety for one moment. A handful of (greedy) pot-
tage-eaters direct their looks at me: Their eyes filled with semen
press their testicles with their hands; And even he that has regard
for decorum steals covert glances and rubs his penis. Since the con-
vent is (like) this, what must the public market be like? A herd of
asses and boorish devils!

I have no means of escape either from men or women: what can I
do, since I belong neither to these nor to those?" He is independent
of the bricks and of quarrelling over the bricks and of a wicked
young ruffian like you who would sell (prostitute) his own mother.
(The Mathnawi of Jalau'ddin Rumi, Translation and Commentary by Reynold A.
Nicholson, Books V&VI, Couplets 3845-3855, pp.470-471)

"Rumi relates the story of two brothers, two brothers were stranded
and compelled to spend the night in the house of "celibates" ([Mas-
navi] VI:3845). In order to protect himself against sexual predators,
the beardless brother (referred to as kudak, "child") assembled twen-