In Chapter 12, Poem 26 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet critiques the 'prudent intellect' (عقل مصلحت اندیش). He emphasizes the limitations of reason in the spiritual journey by employing wordplay between 'intellect' (عقل, aql) and 'entanglement' or 'fetter' (عقیله, aqilah). The poem asserts that intellectual calculation continuously generates new obstacles and afflictions for the seeker, rather than serving as a reliable guide to spiritual truth.