Know that beside the breath (words) of the Qutb of the time traditional knowledge is like performing the ritual ablution with sand when there is water (available).
چون تیمم با وجود آب دان ** علم نقلی با دم قطب زمان
Make yourself foolish (simple) and follow behind (him): only by means of this foolishness will you gain deliverance.
خویش ابله کن تبع می‌رو سپس ** رستگی زین ابلهی یابی و بس
On this account, O father, the Sultan of mankind (Mohammed hath said, “Most of the people of Paradise are the foolish.”1420
اکثر اهل الجنه البله ای پسر ** بهر این گفتست سلطان البشر
Since, intelligence is the exciter of pride and vanity in you, become a fool in order that your heart may remain sound—
زیرکی چون کبر و باد انگیز تست ** ابلهی شو تا بماند دل درست
Not the fool that is bent double (abases himself) in buffoonery, (but) the fool that is distraught and bewildered (lost) in Him (God).
ابلهی نه کو به مسخرگی دوتوست ** ابلهی کو واله و حیران هوست
The foolish are (like) those women (of Egypt) who cut their hands—foolish in respect of their hands, (but) giving (wise) notice to beware of the face (beauty) of Joseph.
ابلهان‌اند آن زنان دست بر ** از کف ابله وز رخ یوسف نذر
Sacrifice your intellect in love for the Friend: anyhow, (all) intellects are from the quarter where He is.
عقل را قربان کن اندر عشق دوست ** عقلها باری از آن سویست کوست
The (spiritually) intelligent have sent their intellects to that quarter: (only) the dolt has remained in this quarter where the’ Beloved is not.1425
عقلها آن سو فرستاده عقول ** مانده این سو که نه معشوقست گول
If, from bewilderment, this intellect of yours go out of this head, every head (tip) of your hair will become (a new) head and intellect.
زین سر از حیرت گر این عقلت رود ** هر سو مویت سر و عقلی شود
In that quarter the trouble of thinking is. not (incumbent) on the brain, for (there) the brain and intellect (spontaneously) produce fields and orchards (of spiritual knowledge).
نیست آن سو رنج فکرت بر دماغ ** که دماغ و عقل روید دشت و باغ