In Poem 29 of Chapter 6 in Mokhtar Nameh, Attar contrasts exoteric, formal knowledge (found in books) with esoteric, direct mystical experience (gnosis). The speaker describes a 'wondrous thing' (چیزی عجب) within his heart and soul that so completely absorbs him that conventional textual learning becomes irrelevant. This verse highlights a fundamental Sufi epistemological principle: the direct 'tasting' (dhawq) or realization of spiritual truths holds absolute supremacy over intellectual or academic scholarship.