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The Futility of Intellect and Strategy in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 32, Poem 18)

In Chapter 32, Poem 18 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker highlights the limitations of human rationality when faced with profound love. The poem expresses a preference for love-induced madness over the distress caused by intellect, asserting that in the realm of love, all human strategies, calculations, and devised plans are ultimately futile and make no progress.

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