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Niffari claimed God told him that knowledge is a giant veil

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Imagine spending your whole life studying books, only to realize the books are exactly the problem. The 10th-century visionary Niffari wrote that he was directly told by the divine that all intellectual knowledge is basically a massive wall blocking true understanding. His writings argue that the only way to actually understand reality is to stop trying to intellectually grasp it completely.

Niffari claimed God told him that knowledge is a giant veil
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