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The Metaphor of the Divine Tress and Hidden Secrets in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 11, Poem 35)

In Poem 35 of Chapter 11 of the Mokhtar Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar employs the mystical metaphor of the Beloved's tress (زلف) to illustrate the inexhaustible and hidden nature of divine mysteries. In Sufi literature, the tress often symbolizes the multiplicity of the phenomenal world and the veil of divine manifestations. Attar expresses that each hair holds "a thousand secrets in the unseen" (هزار سر در غیب است). The poem emphasizes the ultimate limitation of human comprehension; even if a single curl or fraction of these divine secrets is revealed to the seeker, an infinite multitude of other mysteries remains forever concealed in the unseen realm.

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