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  • Hark, come down, that you may see there is nothing: all this illusion is caused by a pear-tree.”
  • Jesting is teaching: listen to it in earnest, do not thou be in pawn to (taken up with) its appearance of jest.
  • To jesters every earnest matter is a jest; to the wise (all) jests are earnest.
  • Lazy folk seek the pear-tree, but ’tis a good (long) way to that pear-tree. 3560
  • Descend from the pear-tree on which at present thou hast become giddy-eyed and giddy-faced.
  • This (pear-tree) is the primal egoism and self-existence wherein the eye is awry and squinting.
  • When thou comest down from this pear-tree, thy thoughts and eyes and words will no more be awry.
  • Thou wilt see that this (pear-tree) has become a tree of fortune, its boughs (reaching) to the Seventh Heaven.
  • When thou comest down and partest from it, God in His mercy will cause it to be transformed. 3565
  • On account of this humility shown by thee in coming down, God will bestow on thine eye true vision.
  • If true vision were easy and facile, how should Mustafá (Mohammed) have desired it from the Lord?
  • He said, “Show (unto me) each part from above and below such as that part is in Thy sight.”
  • Afterwards go up the pear-tree which has been transformed and made verdant by the (Divine) command, “Be.”
  • 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
  • The fire (of Divine illumination) makes it verdant and flourishing; its boughs cry “Lo, I am God.”
  • Beneath its shade all thy needs are fulfilled: such is the Divine alchemy.
  • That personality and existence is lawful to thee, since thou beholdest therein the attributes of the Almighty.
  • The crooked tree has become straight, God-revealing: its root fixed (in the earth) and its branches in the sky.
  • The remainder of the story of Moses, on whom be peace.
  • For there came to him from the peremptory Revelation a message, saying, “Put crookedness aside now, and be upright.” 3575
  • This tree of the body is (like) Moses’ rod, concerning which the (Divine) command came to him —“Let it fall from your hand,
  • That thou mayst behold its good and evil; after that, take it up (again) by command of Him.”
  • Before his dropping it, it was naught but wood; whenever he took it up by His command, it became goodly.
  • At first it was shaking down leaves for the lambs; (afterwards) it reduced to impotence that deluded people.
  • It became ruler over the party of Pharaoh: it turned their water into blood and caused them to beat their heads with their hands. 3580
  • From their sown fields arose famine and death on account of the locusts which devoured the leaves,