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Physical Emaciation and Self-Effacement in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 26, Poem 28)

This concept explores the themes of extreme physical emaciation and self-effacement in Poem 28, Chapter 26 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh. The speaker describes the profound physical toll of separation from the Beloved, where intense grief reduces the lover's body to the thinness of a hair and the lowliness of street dust. Furthermore, the perpetual weeping leads the lover to cover their face with their hands, reinforcing a state of total invisibility and the symbolic annihilation of the self in the face of spiritual sorrow.

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