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The Heart's Spiritual Vision and Annihilation in the Divine Ocean in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 6, Poem 5)

In this quatrain from Chapter 6 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the Sufi themes of spiritual illumination and complete annihilation (fana). When the 'eye of the heart' is awakened by the light of Divine Truth, the illusion of the 'two worlds' (the material and the spiritual realms) completely vanishes from the mystic's sight. Overwhelmed by an intense yearning for this boundless Divine Ocean, the heart sheds its physical confines and entirely dissolves into the ocean itself, symbolizing the soul's ultimate realization of unity with God.

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