Poem 39 from Chapter 8 of Farid al-Din Attar's *Mokhtar Nameh*. This quatrain continues the chapter's overarching theme of the mystical transition from the annihilation of the ego (*Fana*) to subsistence in the Divine (*Baqa*).

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Chapter 8 of Farid al-Din Attar's *Mokhtar Nameh* (مختارنامه) is titled **'On Inciting Annihilation and Being Lost in Subsistence'** (در تحریض نمودن به فنا و گم بودن در بقا). This chapter explores the mystical transition from the annihilation of the ego (*Fana*) to subsistence in the Divine (*Baqa*), emphasizing that spiritual life is attained only through the voluntary death of the worldly self.

Chapter 8 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (On Annihilation and Subsistence)

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شمارهٔ ۳۹ / Number 39

This quatrain (rubai) is part of Chapter 8 of Farid al-Din Attar's *Mokhtar Nameh*. It addresses the mystical necessity of self-annihilation (*Fana*), using metaphors such as the fire of eternity to describe the process of dissolving the ego and the illusion of temporal existence (*'adam*) to find true spiritual subsistence (*Baqa*).

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