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Anxiety of Destiny and the Limitation of Intellect in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 9, Poem 41)

This concept explains Attar's Chapter 9, Poem 41 in Mokhtar Nameh. It focuses on the spiritual anxiety arising from human ignorance regarding divine destiny. The poet describes how trying to resolve this ignorance through intellectual deliberation ('thought of the dawn') only burns the mind with anxiety, suggesting that the remedy lies beyond rational calculation.

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