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The Crisis of Self-Identity and Divine Unknowability in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Poem 63)

In Poem 63 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the seeker acknowledges the absolute impossibility of comprehending the Divine despite endless spiritual striving. Finding no trace of God on the path, the poet accepts this ultimate unknowability but pivots to a profound existential question: 'who am I?'. This illustrates a central theme in Attar's mysticism, where the inability to know the Divine ultimately shatters the seeker's own sense of self and identity, leaving them in a state of spiritual bewilderment.

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