Concept

Cosmic Insignificance and Absolute Divine Unity in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Poem 23)

In Poem 23 of Mokhtar Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar emphasizes the absolute reality of the Divine in contrast to the utter insignificance of the created universe. Using the metaphor of a single hair, Attar illustrates that the entirety of creation—including hundreds of thousands of souls, the seven heavens, and the two worlds—is vanishingly small and virtually non-existent in God's proximity. The poem culminates in a profound expression of absolute unity (Tawhid), declaring that nothing truly exists in the two worlds other than the Divine, thereby underscoring the illusory nature of all existence apart from God.

0

1

Updated 2026-07-03

Contributors are:

Who are from:

References


Tags

Humanities

Literature

Persian Literature Prerequisite Course