 Muḥammad Jalāl al-Dīn Balkhī, better known as “Rūmī,” is regarded by many to be one of the greatest Sufi poets of the Islamic tradition. In his magnum opus, Mathnawī, which has been called by some “The Persian Qur‘an,” Rūmī scorns discursive thought and ridicules philosophers for walking on wobbly stilts: