The world of intellect, logic, and religious law is not the real world. In this episode of RESTART, we dive into the profound wisdom of Sheikh Mahmud Shabestari and Sanai, who, through their paradoxes, prove that all conventional knowledge is but a "conventional matter" that dissolves in the face of true mystical experience. We explain why a cleric, a scholar, or a scientist who bases their authority on books is no different from a monkey who has been taught to mimic an action without understanding its purpose.

This episode is a direct challenge to the legitimacy of every religious leader who has ever held a microphone. It argues that the highest form of worship is not found in sermons or rituals, but in a state of "nothingness," a state of complete unity where all intellectual frameworks collapse. Using the terrifying parable of the scholar whose religious knowledge became a burden leading him to a fool's end, we reveal that without a direct connection to the divine, a person's entire life of piety and scholarship is nothing more than a grotesque form of self-delusion. This is the ultimate lesson in humility from the mystics: the path to God is a path of unlearning, not of accumulation.

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