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The Metaphor of Night's Darkness and Morning's Exposure in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 46, Poem 30)

In Poem 30, Chapter 46 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker expresses a paradoxical anxiety regarding both the night and the morning. While the speaker naturally fears the 'dark deeds' (سیه‌کاری) associated with the night, the morning's light is framed as an equal threat because its 'whitening' (سفیدکاری) exposes spiritual secrets and disrupts the intimacy of the night. The poet pleads with the personified morning to act as a veil-keeper (پرده‌دار), highlighting the mystical theme that the intense, private connection with the divine or beloved must be shielded from the exposing light of the ordinary, outward world.

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