A wife sought to deceive her husband, so she climbed a pear-tree. "Husband, come catch the pears I throw down!"
Then she began screaming at him. "You pervert! What are you doing? Leave that boy alone!"
"I'm here alone!" shouted her husband.
The wife climbed down. "I saw you fondling a strange man! You go up in the tree and I'll catch the pears."
The woman's lover then came.
"Hey," shouted the husband. "I'm seeing the same thing: I see you with a strange man. The pear-tree's illusion is powerful!"
Rumi says: Get down from the pear-tree and rejoin reality.
Inspired by: The English prose version of Rumi in More Tales from the Masnavi by A. J. Arberry.
Notes: This is story 130 in the book.
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