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  • For there is a tree, unique in (all) the quarters (of the world): its fruit is (of) the substance of the Water of Life.
  • I have sought (it) for years and seen no sign (of it) except the gibes and ridicule of these merry men.”
  • The Shaykh laughed and said to him, “O simpleton, this is the tree of knowledge in the sage—
  • Very high and very grand and very far-spreading: (it is) a Water of Life from the all-encompassing Sea (of God).
  • Thou hast gone after the form, O ignorant man: hence thou art without fruit and produce from the bough of reality. 3670
  • Sometimes it is named ‘tree,’ sometimes ‘sun’; sometimes it is named ‘sea,’ sometimes ‘cloud.’
  • (It is) that one (thing) from which a hundred thousand effects arise: its least effects are everlasting life.
  • Although (in essence) it is single, it hath a thousand effects: innumerable names befit (may be properly applied to) that one (thing).
  • One person may be father in relation to thee; in regard to another individual he may be son.
  • In regard to another he may be wrath and a foe; in regard to another he may be graciousness and a friend. 3675