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The Paradox of Divine Sorrow and Annihilation in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 30, Poem 29)

This concept analyzes Poem 29 from Chapter 30 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh. The poem illustrates the paradoxical nature of divine love, where the profound grief it inflicts acts as an 'antidote' (تریاک) for the soul. Furthermore, it metaphorically describes the process of spiritual annihilation (Fana), where divine love completely reduces the seeker to dust and scatters them to the wind, symbolizing the total erasure of the ego and self in the presence of the Divine.

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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course