🕊️ Beyond Thought: Rumi’s Call to Holy Madness

Introduction

There are moments when the mind becomes the veil, not the light.
Rumi, in this fierce and ecstatic ghazal, invites the seeker to stop thinking so much. He challenges the intellect’s constant questioning, warning that thought, if not guided by love, turns into oil feeding the fire of separation.

This is not a rejection of wisdom, but an awakening to a deeper knowing; a kind of divine intuition born in stillness, silence, and surrender. Rumi is not saying “be foolish”; he is saying, “be bewildered by God.”

🔥 “Do not think, do not think…”

میندیش میندیش که اندیشه‌گری‌ها
چو نفتند، بسوزند ز هر بیخ تری‌ها

Do not think, do not think, all these thinkings
Are oil that will burn away the roots of every living thing.

Rumi opens like a thunderclap.
The human mind, forever calculating, analyzing, dissecting, is compared to oil, a fuel for fire. The more we feed it, the more it consumes what is green and alive within us.

This is not a condemnation of reason; it’s an unveiling of its limits. The fire of overthinking dries the garden of the heart. When every feeling must pass through thought’s narrow gate, love itself cannot enter.

The mystic’s first freedom, Rumi says, is from the tyranny of thought.

🌿 “Be simple, be dumb, be drunk…”

خرف باش خرف باش ز مستی و ز حیرت
که تا جمله نیستان نماید شکری‌ها

Be simple, be dumb, be lost in wonder and intoxication
That the entire reed-bed …