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The Allegory of the Madman and the Leather Bag Maker in Mosibat Nameh

This allegory from Attar's Mosibat Nameh describes a madman who observes the bustling activity of the city with silent bewilderment. He eventually cries out in amazement at the leather bag maker (dabbe-gar) who, despite already having many bags (dabbe), continues to produce more. This serves as a metaphor for the endless and often redundant accumulation of worldly desires and the cyclical nature of human greed, contrasting the 'madman's' detached clarity with the frantic, 'perplexed' state of ordinary people chasing material goals.

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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course