On which you may make shipwreck, lose all chance of light.
Seek wisdom, then, from wisdom’s sons, the pure of mind;
So mayest thou learn the way salvation’s port to find.
A seeker after wisdom, is, of wisdom, fount.
“Humanities” he shuns; them, he does trash account.175
A memory replete with holy Qur’ān’s lore
A “hidden tablet” is;[154] its mind is wisdom’s store.
If man begin as pupil to good common sense,
He’ll end by being teacher,—mind, his audience.
Man’s mind declares, as Gabriel to Ahmed there,[155]