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The Allegory of Pharaoh's Drowning and Divine Mercy in the Mosibat Nameh

In this section of the Mosibat Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar recounts the Islamic tradition of the Archangel Gabriel stuffing mud into the drowning Pharaoh's mouth to prevent him from completing the Shahada (declaration of faith). Attar uses this narrative to illustrate the boundless nature of divine mercy. The poem implies that God's grace is so vast that even a lifelong tyrant like Pharaoh might have been forgiven had the declaration been completed. This allegory serves to contrast profound divine compassion with both human arrogance and angelic strictness.

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