Resist the calls of wrangling talk (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)

For the tongues of those called
     “gnostics most eloquent”
          said all that could be said,
               then fell silent.

You are intimate, akin to what
     you do not say, but speak of it
          and you are a stranger,
               so, shut up!

In silence is nobility,
     a place of strong and sound restraint,
          but he is slave to dignity
               who is silent for thought of rank.