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The Endless Cosmic Search and Bewilderment in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 28, Poem 3)

In Chapter 28, Poem 3 of the Mokhtar Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar explores the profound theme of spiritual bewilderment (tahayyur). The speaker reflects on the exhaustion and apparent futility of his endless wandering across the physical world in search of an elusive truth. By highlighting that even the ancient, continuously revolving heavens (the cosmos) have failed to find this 'something' over their long existence, Attar emphasizes the ineffable and perhaps unfathomable nature of the ultimate divine mystery, drawing a poignant contrast between human longing and cosmic limitations.

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