### Overview
In Chapter 9, Poem 45 of *Mokhtar Nameh*, Attar uses the metaphors of a boundless desert and a wandering circle to depict the height of existential and spiritual bewilderment.

### Key Concepts
- **The Boundless Desert of the World:** The world is described as a desert lacking any visible door, beginning, or end, representing a state of absolute disorientation.
- **The Wandering Circle:** The cyclical nature of the world is portrayed as a wandering circle (*dayereh-ye sar-gardan*), symbolizing perpetual aimlessness.
- **Supreme Bewilderment:** The speaker declares themselves the most bewildered (*sar-gashteh*) of all creation, emphasizing the ultimate state of mystical perplexity (*hayrat*).

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## Original content
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<p>در بادیهٔ جهان دری بنمایید<br />
وین بادیه را پا و سری بنمایید</p>
<p>ای خلق! درین دایرهٔ سرگردان<br />
سرگشتهتر از من دگری بنمایید</p>

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## English translation
Show a door in the desert of the world,
And show a beginning and an end to this desert;
O people! In this wandering circle,
Show me another more bewildered than I.

شمارهٔ ۴۵ / Number 45

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