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The Allegory of Sheikh Kharaqani's Dream and Divine Seeking in Mosibat Nameh

In this section of Attar's Mosibat Nameh, a dialogue is depicted between the Sufi master Sheikh Abul Hassan Kharaqani and God in a dream. When Kharaqani describes his sixty years of earnest striving (jahd) to find God, the Divine voice reveals that human seeking is secondary to pre-eternal grace. God asserts that the Divine sought Kharaqani in pre-eternity (azal) before he even existed, demonstrating that the human quest for the Divine is initiated by God's eternal desire for the human soul. This allegory illustrates the Sufi doctrine of jadhba (divine attraction) and inaya (grace), emphasizing that spiritual attainment is ultimately a gift of pre-eternal destiny rather than the product of personal effort.

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