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The Pain of Divine Separation and Total Mourning in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 11, Poem 39)

In Chapter 11, Poem 39 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker describes the overwhelming agony of separation from the Divine. The complete absence of 'news'—symbolizing a lack of divine revelation, connection, or grace—plunges the mystic into such profound sorrow that it is fitting for every single hair to 'sit in mourning.' This vivid hyperbole highlights the totality of the mystic's spiritual pain and wretchedness when feeling distanced from the Beloved.

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