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Comparison of the Equalizing Nature of Death in Sanai's Hadiqat and Attar's Asrar Nameh

Both Sanai in Section 10 of the Hadiqat al-Haqiqah and Attar in Section 1 of the Sixteenth Discourse of the Asrar Nameh emphasize the absolute universality and equalizing power of death across all social classes. While Sanai employs vivid imagery of death indiscriminately taking infants, merchants, and powerful rulers to warn against worldly vanity, Attar distills this concept by contrasting a destitute beggar with an exalted king, highlighting that both ultimately share the exact same fate: a narrow grave and a simple shroud. Both poets utilize the impartiality of mortality as a profound didactic warning to abandon earthly arrogance and material attachments.

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