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The Paradox of Sharpened Vision and Spiritual Blindness in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 11, Poem 2)

In Chapter 11, Poem 2 of Mokhtar Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar emphasizes the paradoxical limits of human perception in seeking the divine. The poem asserts that no matter how much a seeker's vision and intellect are sharpened, they become ultimately blind at the point of the 'true essence' (کنه). This reflects a core Sufi theme where human faculties are inherently incapable of comprehending the absolute reality, making the seeker's efforts seem futile in the face of the ultimate truth.

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