When she came down, her husband went up: (then) the woman drew her paramour into her arms.
چون فرود آمد بر آمد شوهرش ** زن کشید آن مول را اندر برش
Maritus dixit, “O scortum, iste quis est qui velut simia super te venit?” [(Her) husband said, “Who is that one, O whore, who has come to be on top of you like an ape?”]
گفت شوهر کیست آن ای روسپی ** که به بالای تو آمد چون کپی
“Nay,” said the wife, “there is no one here but me. Hark, thy head is turned: don't talk nonsense.”
گفت زن نه نیست اینجا غیر من ** هین سرت برگشته شد هرزه متن
He repeated the charge against his wife. “This,” said the wife, “is from the pear-tree.3555
او مکرر کرد بر زن آن سخن ** گفت زن این هست از امرودبن
From the top of the pear-tree I was seeing just as falsely as you, O cuckold.
از سر امرودبن من هم‌چنان ** کژ همی دیدم که تو ای قلتبان
Hark, come down, that you may see there is nothing: all this illusion is caused by a pear-tree.”
هین فرود آ تا ببینی هیچ نیست ** این همه تخییل از امروبنیست
Jesting is teaching: listen to it in earnest, do not thou be in pawn to (taken up with) its appearance of jest.
هزل تعلیمست آن را جد شنو ** تو مشو بر ظاهر هزلش گرو
To jesters every earnest matter is a jest; to the wise (all) jests are earnest.
هر جدی هزلست پیش هازلان ** هزلها جدست پیش عاقلان
Lazy folk seek the pear-tree, but ’tis a good (long) way to that pear-tree.3560
کاهلان امرودبن جویند لیک ** تا بدان امرودبن راهیست نیک
Descend from the pear-tree on which at present thou hast become giddy-eyed and giddy-faced.
نقل کن ز امرودبن که اکنون برو ** گشته‌ای تو خیره‌چشم و خیره‌رو
This (pear-tree) is the primal egoism and self-existence wherein the eye is awry and squinting.
این منی و هستی اول بود ** که برو دیده کژ و احول بود
When thou comest down from this pear-tree, thy thoughts and eyes and words will no more be awry.
چون فرود آیی ازین امرودبن ** کژ نماند فکرت و چشم و سخن
Thou wilt see that this (pear-tree) has become a tree of fortune, its boughs (reaching) to the Seventh Heaven.
یک درخت بخت بینی گشته این ** شاخ او بر آسمان هفتمین
When thou comest down and partest from it, God in His mercy will cause it to be transformed.3565
چون فرود آیی ازو گردی جدا ** مبدلش گرداند از رحمت خدا
On account of this humility shown by thee in coming down, God will bestow on thine eye true vision.
زین تواضع که فرود آیی خدا ** راست بینی بخشد آن چشم ترا
If true vision were easy and facile, how should Mustafá (Mohammed) have desired it from the Lord?
راست بینی گر بدی آسان و زب ** مصطفی کی خواستی آن را ز رب
He said, “Show (unto me) each part from above and below such as that part is in Thy sight.”
گفت بنما جزو جزو از فوق و پست ** آنچنان که پیش تو آن جزو هست
Afterwards go up the pear-tree which has been transformed and made verdant by the (Divine) command, “Be.”
بعد از آن بر رو بر آن امرودبن ** که مبدل گشت و سبز از امر کن
This tree has (now) become like the tree connected with Moses, inasmuch as thou hast transported thy baggage towards (hast been endued with the nature of) Moses.3570
چون درخت موسوی شد این درخت ** چون سوی موسی کشانیدی تو رخت
The fire (of Divine illumination) makes it verdant and flourishing; its boughs cry “Lo, I am God.”
آتش او را سبز و خرم می‌کند ** شاخ او انی انا الله می‌زند
Beneath its shade all thy needs are fulfilled: such is the Divine alchemy.
زیر ظلش جمله حاجاتت روا ** این چنین باشد الهی کیمیا
That personality and existence is lawful to thee, since thou beholdest therein the attributes of the Almighty.
آن منی و هستیت باشد حلال ** که درو بینی صفات ذوالجلال
The crooked tree has become straight, God-revealing: its root fixed (in the earth) and its branches in the sky.
شد درخت کژ مقوم حق‌نما ** اصله ثابت و فرعه فی‌السما
The remainder of the story of Moses, on whom be peace.
باقی قصه‌ی موسی علیه‌السلام
For there came to him from the peremptory Revelation a message, saying, “Put crookedness aside now, and be upright.”3575
که آمدش پیغام از وحی مهم ** که کژی بگذار اکنون فاستقم
This tree of the body is (like) Moses’ rod, concerning which the (Divine) command came to him —“Let it fall from your hand,
این درخت تن عصای موسیست ** که امرش آمد که بیندازش ز دست