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Renunciation and Gambling Away Both Worlds in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 44, Poem 9)
In Chapter 44, Poem 9 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet utilizes Qalandari imagery to express profound spiritual detachment. Throwing the turban into the tavern symbolizes the rejection of religious formalism, intellectual pride, and worldly status in favor of mystical intoxication. Furthermore, despite possessing absolute material poverty (lacking a single dirham), the speaker paradoxically gambles away both worlds (the material realm and the hereafter). This reflects the ultimate state of spiritual poverty (faqr), where the mystic seeks nothing but the Divine, willingly abandoning all attachments to mundane and spiritual rewards alike.
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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course