Reason Is Useful Until It Brings You To The Door

 

You say, “I filled my sheep-skin in the sea, but the sea was too great to be contained in my sheepskin.”

That is absurd. If you say, “My sheep-skin was lost in the sea,” that is excellent! That is the

root of the matter. Reason is fine and useful until it brings you to the door of the King. Once you have reached His door, give up reason, for in that your reason is a sheer loss to you, a highway robber.

When you have reached the King, surrender yourself to Him, you have no use then for the

how and wherefore.

For instance, you have an uncut cloth you want made into a tunic or a cloak. Reason brings you to a tailor. Until that moment reason is fine, for it brings the cloth to the tailor. Now in that very moment reason must be forgotten and you must abandon yourself wholly to the direction of the tailor. In the same way, reason is fine when you are sick because it brings you to the physician. After that, reason is of no use to you, since you must surrender yourself to the advice of the physician.

Fihi Ma Fih - Rumi