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  • چون بسی دید اندر آن غربت تعب ** عاجز آمد آخر الامر از طلب‏ 3655
  • After he had suffered much fatigue in that foreign land, at last he became too exhausted to seek (any longer).

  • هیچ از مقصود اثر پیدا نشد ** ز آن غرض غیر خبر پیدا نشد
  • No trace of the object of pursuit was discovered: of what he wanted nothing appeared but the report.

  • رشته‏ی امید او بگسسته شد ** جسته‏ی او عاقبت ناجسته شد
  • The thread of his hope snapped, the thing he had sought became unsought in the end.

  • کرد عزم باز گشتن سوی شاه ** اشک می‏بارید و می‏برید راه‏
  • He resolved to return to the king, (and set out) shedding tears and traversing the way.

  • شرح کردن شیخ سر آن درخت را با آن طالب مقلد
  • How the Shaykh explained the hidden meaning of the tree to the seeker who was in the bondage of formalism.

  • بود شیخی عالمی قطبی کریم ** اندر آن منزل که آیس شد ندیم‏
  • There was a wise Shaykh, a noble Qutb, at the halting-place where the king's intimate fell into despair.

  • گفت من نومید پیش او روم ** ز آستان او به راه اندر شوم‏ 3660
  • He (the envoy) said, “Being without hope, I will go to him, and set out on the road (again) from his threshold,

  • تا دعای او بود همراه من ** چون که نومیدم من از دل خواه من‏
  • In order that his prayer (blessing) may accompany me, since I have no hope of (winning) my heart's desire.”

  • رفت پیش شیخ با چشم پر آب ** اشک می‏بارید مانند سحاب‏
  • With tearful eyes he went to the Shaykh: he was raining tears, like a cloud.

  • گفت شیخا وقت رحم و رقت است ** ناامیدم وقت لطف این ساعت است‏
  • “O Shaykh,” he cried, “it is the time for mercy and pity; I am in despair: now is the time for kindness.”

  • گفت وا گو کز چه نومیدیستت ** چیست مطلوب تو رو با چیستت‏
  • He (the Shaykh) said, “Say plainly what is the cause of thy despair: what is thy object? what hast thou in view?”

  • گفت شاهنشاه کردم اختیار ** از برای جستن یک شاخسار 3665
  • He answered, “The Emperor chose me out to seek a certain branching tree,

  • که درختی هست نادر در جهات ** میوه‏ی او مایه‏ی آب حیات‏
  • For there is a tree, unique in (all) the quarters (of the world): its fruit is (of) the substance of the Water of Life.

  • سالها جستم ندیدم یک نشان ** جز که طنز و تسخر این سر خوشان‏
  • I have sought (it) for years and seen no sign (of it) except the gibes and ridicule of these merry men.”

  • شیخ خندید و بگفتش ای سلیم ** این درخت علم باشد در علیم‏
  • The Shaykh laughed and said to him, “O simpleton, this is the tree of knowledge in the sage—

  • بس بلند و بس شگرف و بس بسیط ** آب حیوانی ز دریای محیط
  • Very high and very grand and very far-spreading: (it is) a Water of Life from the all-encompassing Sea (of God).

  • تو به صورت رفته‏ای ای بی‏خبر ** ز آن ز شاخ معنیی بی‏بار و بر 3670
  • Thou hast gone after the form, O ignorant man: hence thou art without fruit and produce from the bough of reality.

  • گه درختش نام شد گه آفتاب ** گاه بحرش نام گشت و گه سحاب‏
  • Sometimes it is named ‘tree,’ sometimes ‘sun’; sometimes it is named ‘sea,’ sometimes ‘cloud.’

  • آن یکی کش صد هزار آثار خاست ** کمترین آثار او عمر بقاست‏
  • (It is) that one (thing) from which a hundred thousand effects arise: its least effects are everlasting life.

  • گر چه فرد است او اثر دارد هزار ** این یکی را نام شاید بی‏شمار
  • Although (in essence) it is single, it hath a thousand effects: innumerable names befit (may be properly applied to) that one (thing).

  • آن یکی شخص ترا باشد پدر ** در حق شخصی دگر باشد پسر
  • One person may be father in relation to thee; in regard to another individual he may be son.

  • در حق دیگر بود قهر و عدو ** در حق دیگر بود لطف و نکو 3675
  • In regard to another he may be wrath and a foe; in regard to another he may be graciousness and a friend.

  • صد هزاران نام و او یک آدمی ** صاحب هر وصفش از وصفی عمی‏
  • (He hath) hundreds of thousands of names, (but) he is one man: the owner of every quality belonging to him is blind to (incapable of) giving any (true) description (of him).

  • هر که جوید نام اگر صاحب ثقه است ** همچو تو نومید و اندر تفرقه است‏
  • Whoever seeks the (mere) name, if he is entrusted (with a confidential mission) he is hopeless and in distraction, even as thou art.

  • تو چه بر چفسی بر این نام درخت ** تا بمانی تلخ کام و شور بخت‏
  • Why dost thou stick to the name ‘tree,’ so that thou art left bitterly disappointed and ill-fortuned?

  • در گذر از نام و بنگر در صفات ** تا صفاتت ره نماید سوی ذات‏
  • Pass on from the name and look at the attributes, in order that the attributes may show thee the way to the essence.”