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The Agony of Patience and the Exclusivity of Divine Vision in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Poem 35)
In Poem 35 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 29), the speaker articulates a profound spiritual state where only the Divine is visible, expressing a radical realization of Tawhid in which all other existence fades. The poem contrasts this unified vision with the anguish of separation, declaring that the divine command to practice patience in the Beloved's absence is unbearable. For the mystic lover, maintaining patience away from God is experienced as a state worse than infidelity (kufr), emphasizing that true devotion requires the constant, unmediated presence of the Divine.
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Updated 2026-07-05
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