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Self-Unawareness and Renunciation of Both Worlds in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 29, Poem 26)

In Chapter 29, Poem 26 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the profound effects of divine love, specifically focusing on self-unawareness and complete renunciation. The speaker's intense yearning for the Beloved results in a burning heart and a loss of personal identity or self-awareness. Furthermore, the poem illustrates the ultimate sacrifice in Sufi tradition: the willingness to easily abandon 'both worlds' (the material world and the hereafter) merely for the privilege of gazing upon the Beloved's presence.

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