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Endless Affliction and Mourning Separation in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 31, Poem 63)

In Chapter 31, Poem 63 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker describes a state of continuous spiritual pain and affliction. Realizing that the 'banquet of union' with the Divine is inaccessible, the lover is left with no path forward, resulting in a lifelong state of mourning for their own separated existence. This poem emphasizes the agonizing endurance of longing and the despair that arises when spiritual union is perceived as unattainable.

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