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Existential Bewilderment and the Inescapable Tumult of Mortality in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 9, Poem 30)

This concept explores the soul's realization of absolute transience and the absence of a visible path in the hereafter. The 'tumult' (shuresh) signifies the existential unrest and disorientation of the soul upon its departure from the material world, emphasizing a state of spiritual bewilderment where no escape from mortality is perceived.

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