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Mokhtar Nameh, Chapter 8: On Selflessness, Purity, and Detachment

Chapter 8 of Farid al-Din Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (titled 'In Selflessness, Purity, and Detachment' / 'در بیخودی و پاکی و استغنا') consists of quatrains that explore the mystical states of bi-khudi (selflessness) and fana (annihilation). In this section, Attar articulates the soul's liberation from the constraints of the physical and metaphysical 'two worlds' and the transcendence of the duality between existence and non-existence, asserting that true spiritual purity is attained only when the seeker is entirely freed from the self.

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