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The Constant Pain of Unseen Divine Love in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 29, Poem 47)

In Chapter 29, Poem 47 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the theme of loving the unseen Divine and the transformative agony of separation. The poem illustrates the lover's intense, unceasing pain, where the heart burns to ashes without ever physically seeing the Beloved. Furthermore, the poem emphasizes that any momentary decrease in this spiritual pain causes a 'thousand awakenings' from sleep, signifying that the continuous agony of yearning is the true, wakeful state of the mystical seeker.

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