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  • One said to him, “In our city there is nobody of intelligence except yonder man who appears to be mad.
  • Look, there is (one named) so-and-so: mounted on a cane, he rides (it as a cock-horse) amongst the children. 2340
  • He is possessed of judgment and (keen as) a spark of fire; he is as the sky in dignity, and as the stars in high estate.
  • His glory has become the (rational) soul of the Cherubim; he has become concealed in this (feigned) madness.”
  • But you must not account every madman a (rational) soul: do not, like Sámirí, lay down your head (in worship) to a calf.
  • When a manifest saint has declared unto you hundreds of thousands of unseen things and hidden mysteries,
  • And you have not had the (proper) understanding and knowledge, (so that) you have not distinguished dung from aloes-wood— 2345
  • How, when the saint has made for himself a veil of madness, will you recognise him, O blind one?
  • If your eye of intuitive certainty is open, behold a (spiritual) captain under every stone.
  • To the eye that is open and (as) a guide, every dervish-cloak hath a Moses in its embrace.