The following, my friend, I believe you will read and understand.
   
  Overturn your speech and utterance,
  keep vain imagining away.
  Walk not in the movements of Before
  and After.  And pass through the desert
  of human order and institutions.
  Wander as though mad with love among
  those who are distracted by love,
  and grasp the upward leading sense
  that you may become a bird flying 
  between mountains and hills; mountains
  of intellectualism and hills of self-
  esteem, in order that you may see what
  is there, and that you may become the
  sword of the one who strikes in the
  secret mosque.   
                        Al Hallas.