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Self-Loss in the Quest for the Signless in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 8, Poem 61)

In Chapter 8, Poem 61 of the Mokhtar Nameh, Attar illustrates the mystical paradox where searching for the signless Divine leads to the seeker's own namelessness and self-loss. The thirty-year quest does not culminate in finding a distinct, graspable Beloved; instead, the seeker becomes lost in the process. This signifies that true communion with the Divine requires the complete annihilation (fana) of the seeker's ego and individual identity.

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