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2027-2051

  • How can it be a dream? I go up the trees, I eat their fruit: how should I not believe?
  • خواب چه بود بر درختان می‌روم ** میوه‌هاشان می‌خورم چون نگروم

  • (But) again, when I look at the incredulous ones who turn aside from this orchard,
  • باز چون من بنگرم در منکران ** که همی‌گیرند زین بستان کران

  • Devoting their lives with the utmost indigence and penury because of their desire for half an unripe grape;
  • با کمال احتیاج و افتقار ** ز آرزوی نیم غوره جانسپار

  • (When I see) these destitute folk uttering grievous lamentation in their longing and greed for a single leaf, 2030
  • ز اشتیاق و حرص یک برگ درخت ** می‌زنند این بی‌نوایان آه سخت

  • (And when I see) these hundred thousands on thousands of people fleeing from this tree and these fruits—
  • در هزیمت زین درخت و زین ثمار ** این خلایق صد هزار اندر هزار

  • Once more I say, ‘Marvellous! Am I beside myself? Have I laid hold of a bough of phantasy?’”
  • باز می‌گویم عجب من بی‌خودم ** دست در شاخ خیالی در زدم

  • Repeat (the text)until when the Messengers (of God) despaired down to (the words) they thought they had been belied (kudhibú).
  • حتی اذا ما استیاس الرسل بگو ** تا بظنوا انهم قد کذبوا

  • Recite (the verse) with this reading (kudhibú), for the omission of the tashdíd in kudhibú signifies that he (the Messenger) deems himself debarred (from receiving the promised aid from God).
  • این قرائت خوان که تخفیف کذب ** این بود که خویش بیند محتجب

  • The souls of the prophets fell into misgiving through the concurrence of disbelief (on the part) of the wicked; 2035
  • در گمان افتاد جان انبیا ** ز اتفاق منکری اشقیا

  • (But) Our aid came to them after (their) doubting. Take leave of them (the misguided people) and climb the tree of the spirit.
  • جائهم بعد التشکک نصرنا ** ترکشان گو بر درخت جان بر آ

  • Eat (of the fruit of this tree) and give it to every one that hath an allotted portion (thereof): at each moment and each instant there are lessons in (spiritual) magic (for him).
  • می‌خور و می‌ده بدان کش روزیست ** هر دم و هر لحظه سحرآموزیست

  • “The people are saying, ‘Oh, how wonderful! What is this cry?—since the wilderness is devoid of trees and fruit.
  • خلق‌گویان ای عجب این بانگ چیست ** چونک صحرا از درخت و بر تهیست

  • We have been fooled by the words of the madmen (who tell us) that beside us there are gardens and trays (of fruit).
  • گیج گشتیم از دم سوداییان ** که به نزدیک شما باغست و خوان

  • We rub our eyes, (but) no garden is here; ‘tis either a desert or a difficult road. 2040
  • چشم می‌مالیم اینجا باغ نیست ** یا بیابانیست یا مشکل رهیست

  • Oh, how wonderful! This tale (related by the prophets and saints) is so long: how should it be vain? And if it really is (as they say), where (is that which they tell of)?’
  • ای عجب چندین دراز این گفت و گو ** چون بود بیهوده ور خود هست کو

  • I, like them, am saying, ‘Oh, how wonderful! Why has the action of the Lord put such a seal (upon their eyes)?’”
  • من همی‌گویم چو ایشان ای عجب ** این چنین مهری چرا زد صنع رب

  • By these contentions (on the part of the unbelievers) Mohammed was astonished; Abú Lahab also remained in astonishment (at him).
  • زین تنازعها محمد در عجب ** در تعجب نیز مانده بولهب

  • Between this astonishment and that astonishment there is a profound difference. (Let us see) what the Almighty King will do (to the infidels in the end).
  • زین عجب تا آن عجب فرقیست ژرف ** تا چه خواهد کرد سلطان شگرف

  • O Daqúqí, advance more quickly (in thy quest for Unity). Hark, be silent! Inasmuch as there is a dearth of ears, how long wilt thou speak, how long? 2045
  • ای دقوقی تیزتر ران هین خموش ** چند گویی چند چون قحطست گوش

  • How the seven trees became one.
  • یک درخت شدن آن هفت درخت

  • He (Daqúqí) said, “I, the fortunate one, pushed forward; again all the seven (trees) became one tree.
  • گفت راندم پیشتر من نیکبخت ** باز شد آن هفت جمله یک درخت

  • At every moment they were becoming seven and (also) a single one: (you may imagine) what I was becoming like, through bewilderment.
  • هفت می‌شد فرد می‌شد هر دمی ** من چه سان می‌گشتم ازحیرت همی

  • After that, I beheld the trees (engaged) in the ritual prayer, drawn up in line and (properly) arranged like the congregation (of Moslems):
  • بعد از آن دیدم درختان در نماز ** صف کشیده چون جماعت کرده ساز

  • One tree (was) in front like the Imám, the others (were) standing behind it.
  • یک درخت از پیش مانند امام ** دیگران اندر پس او در قیام

  • That standing and kneeling and bowing low on the part of the trees seemed to me very marvellous. 2050
  • آن قیام و آن رکوع و آن سجود ** از درختان بس شگفتم می‌نمود

  • Then I called to mind the word of God: He said, concerning the stalkless plants and the trees, ‘they bow down.’
  • یاد کردم قول حق را آن زمان ** گفت النجم و شجر را یسجدان