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Divine Love and Pain as Ultimate Sufficiency in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 33, Poem 11)

In Chapter 33, Poem 11 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet expresses the paradoxical sufficiency of divine love and pain. For the mystic lover, conventional existence (the soul) and traditional remedies are rendered obsolete by the overwhelming presence of divine love. The lover embraces the 'hundred thousand pains' inflicted by the Beloved, seeing this spiritual suffering not as a condition to be cured, but as the ultimate fulfillment and remedy in itself. This illustrates the self-sustaining and transcendent nature of mystical yearning.

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