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The Endless Desert of Love and Universal Bewilderment in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 29, Poem 19)

This concept analyzes Chapter 29, Poem 19 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, which explores the boundless nature of Divine Love through the metaphor of an endless desert. The poem asserts that the pain of this love is incurable and emphasizes a state of universal bewilderment (sargardani). According to Attar, bewilderment is the fundamental human condition: both those who are actively on the path of love and those who have failed to find it are wandering helplessly, suggesting that the journey toward the Divine is perpetual and disorienting.

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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course