The Illusion of the Soul's Existence and the Pretext of Alast in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 7, Poem 18)
In this poem, Farid al-Din Attar critiques the human ego's assumption of its own independent existence. Attar explains that even the soul's infatuation with the Covenant of Alast (the primordial covenant) and human thoughts are merely pretexts and signs rather than proof of an independent self, emphasizing that the individual self is an illusion.
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