2-2385 He answered, “Go away from this door-ring, for this door is not open.

Turn
back: today is not the day for secrets.”

2-2400 The seeker said, “O you mounted on the cane, please, ride your horse this way
for one moment.”

2-2401 He rode towards him, crying, “Listen, say as quickly as you can what you
want, for my horse is very restive and fierce-tempered.

2-2402 Be quick, that he might not kick you: explain clearly what you are asking
about.”

2-2418 The other said, “O king, with such intelligence and erudition as you have, what
feigning is this? What way of acting is this? O, how wondrous!”

2-2419 You transcend the Universal Intellect in your power to elucidate. You are a
sun: how are you hidden in madness?”

2-2420 He replied, “These rascals are proposing to make me qāḍī1328 in this their city.

2-2421 I raised objections, but they said to me, ‘No, there is no one as learned and
accomplished as you.

2-2422 As long as you exist, it is unlawful and wicked that anyone inferior to you
should quote Prophetic Traditions as qāḍī1329.

2-2424 Because of this necessity I became unsettled and mad in appearance, but
inwardly I am just the same as I was.

2-2425 My intelligence is the hidden treasure, and I am the ruin covering it; if I show
the treasure1330, then I am mad indeed.

2-2426 The true madman is he who has not gone mad, he who has seen the night-patrol
and has not gone home.

2-2428 I am a mine of sugar, I am a plantation of sugar-canes: it is growing from me,

and at the same time I am eating of it.’

4-1408 Sacrifice your intellect the presence of Muṣṭafā (Muḥammad1331); say,

“ḥasbīya’Llāh – God is sufficient for me.”

4-1424 Sacrifice your intellect in love for the Friend: anyhow, all intellects come from
where He is.

1328
A Muslim judge who settles religious cases according to the Sharī‘a, the Islamic law. The Persian form of
qāḍī is qāżī.
1329
I.e. “holding the office of qāḍī”.
1330
The treasure is ma‘rifa or gnosis (Nich.).
1331
In this verse Ḥażrat Muḥammad symbolizes Love.

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