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The Inefficacy of Intellect and the Significance of Spiritual Longing in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 27, Poem 32)

In Poem 32 of Chapter 27 in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet portrays the spiritual journey as a vast wilderness where human intellect is utterly powerless and lacks any path. The magnitude of this spiritual realm is such that even a massive mountain is reduced to the insignificance of a straw. Attar emphasizes that rational thought and intellectual effort cannot traverse this desert; rather, the only worthy traveler is a "sigh" (آه), which symbolizes profound inner sorrow, yearning, and spiritual vulnerability as the true means of wayfaring toward the divine.

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