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The Boundless Ocean of the Heart and Cosmic Commotion in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 6, Poem 10)

In Chapter 6, Poem 10 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet conceptualizes the human heart as a boundless, hidden ocean of divine reality. When the heart's inner truth emerges from behind the 'veil' of concealment, its overwhelming spiritual power sets the entire cosmos into motion and commotion. This reflects the Sufi concept that the awakened heart contains infinite, dynamic divine depths, such that a single wave from its concealed ocean can give rise to a thousand new oceans of spiritual realization.

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