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The Poetic Symbolism and Metaphors of Hair in Section 60 of Khosrow Nameh

In Section 60 of Farid al-Din Attar's Khosrow Nameh, the poet employs extensive wordplay and rich metaphors centered on hair (mou) to express the lover's extreme devotion and self-effacement. Attar uses the physical characteristics of dark, musky hair (mou-ye mishkin) to contrast the beloved's captivating presence with the lover's own fragile state—describing himself as being as thin and weak as a single strand of hair (shodam muyi). The poem highlights the gnostic theme where the lover's ego is completely dissolved (coming out of one's skin like a hair from dough) in the pursuit of union with the beloved, illustrating how physical descriptions of beauty serve as vehicles for expressing deep spiritual annihilation (fana).

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