This concept explores how Attar describes the spiritual path as transcending rational or prudent intellect. The seeker's intellect cannot guide them through this journey, ultimately leading the heart to exhaustion, bewilderment (hayrat), and the dissolution of self (loss of ego).

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<p>گر عقل مرا مصلحت اندیش آمد<br />
تا این چه طریقیست که در پیش آمد</p>
<p>روزی صد ره دلم بجان بیش آمد<br />
آخر متحیر شد و بیخویش آمد</p>

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## English translation
If my intellect became a prudent counselor to me,
Then what is this path that has appeared before me?
A hundred times a day, my heart was driven to utter exhaustion,
Finally, it became bewildered and lost itself.

شمارهٔ ۶ / Number 6

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Limitations of Intellect and Bewilderment of the Heart in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 9, Poem 6)

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<p>احوال جهان سخت عجیب افتادست<br />
زیرک تر عقل بی نصیب افتادست</p>
<p>چون نیست به جز تحیر آخر کار<br />
بیمارترین کسی طبیب افتادست</p>

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## English translation
The states of the world have become very strange,
The most clever intellect has been left without a share.
Since there is nothing but bewilderment at the end of the matter,
The sickest person has turned out to be the physician.

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