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The Necessity of Certainty and Surrender in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 34, Poem 12)

In Chapter 34, Poem 12 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the divine visitor emphasizes that spiritual arrival requires absolute certainty (yaqin) and complete surrender. The seeker is instructed to abandon restless striving across the 'heavens' and 'earth', and instead cultivate stillness and a joyful heart. The poem concludes with the profound assertion of Divine omnipresence ('We are everything'), suggesting that true union is achieved only by surrendering to this all-encompassing reality.

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