In this allegorical tale from Attar's *Mosibat Nameh*, a dying vizier expresses deep regret for exchanging the eternal afterlife for worldly status and political power. His deathbed realization warns against the spiritual dangers of political ambition and the illusion of worldly mastery.

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آن وزیری را چو آمد مرگ پیش 
کرد حیران روی سوی قوم خویش
گفت دردا و دریغا کز غرض 
آخرت با خواجگی کردم عوض
زآرزوی این جهان میسوختم 
لاجرم آن یک بدین بفروختم
میروم امروز جانی سوخته 
رفته دنیا و آخرت بفروخته
ای دل غافل دمی بیدار شو 
چند بد مستی کنی هشیار شو
رفتگان اندر نخستین منزلند 
منتظر بنشسته و مستعجلند
بیش ازین در بند خودشان می مدار 
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## English translation
When death approached a certain vizier,
Bewildered, he turned his face toward his people.
He said, 'Alas and alack, out of self-interest,
I exchanged the hereafter for lordship.
I burned with desire for this world,
Inevitably, I sold that one for this.
Today I depart with a burned soul,
The world is gone, and the hereafter sold.
O heedless heart, awake for a moment,
How long will you be dead drunk? Become sober.
The departed are in the first station,
Sitting in waiting and in a hurry.
Do not keep them bound to yourself any longer,
How much longer will you make them wait in the end?'

بخش ۴ - الحكایة و التمثیل / Section 4 - The Tale and the Parable

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