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The Inaccessibility of the Divine Secret in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Poem 46)

In Poem 46 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet emphasizes the absolute inaccessibility of the ultimate divine secret. He asserts that the profound mystery of existence is fundamentally beyond human intellectual capacity, noting that neither the speaker nor the listener ('neither you nor I') can comprehend or resolve it. The poem underscores this epistemological limit by stating that even if a minuscule fragment ('particle') of this cosmic truth were made manifest, human beings would still be entirely incapable of deciphering or understanding it.

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