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Extreme Humility and the Plea for a Faithful Death in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Poem 106)

In Poem 106 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet expresses a profound plea to pass away with faith, avoiding the veil of spiritual ignorance. To invoke Divine mercy and avoid the punishments of Hell, the speaker employs a striking metaphor of ultimate humility: sweeping the Divine threshold with his own beard (محاسن). This imagery emphasizes the reduction of the ego and the complete subjection of the self before God, highlighting the Sufi themes of sincere devotion, fear of divine justice, and reliance on God's grace at the moment of death.

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