Overview

In Poem 80 of the Mokhtar Nameh, Attar explores the profound spiritual restlessness of the mystic lover and the absolute insufficiency of human thanksgiving in the face of limitless divine grace.

Key Themes

• Spiritual Restlessness: The poet declares that without the Beloved, they cannot find peace or stability for even a single moment, highlighting the total dependence of the lover on the divine presence.
• The Limitlessness of Divine Grace: Divine favor (ehsan) is depicted as utterly immeasurable and beyond human calculation.
• The Hyperbolic Motif of Hair-Tongues: To convey the sheer impossibility of adequate thanksgiving, Attar employs a striking hyperbole: even if every single hair on the lover's body were transformed into a speaking tongue, the combined praise would still fail to express even a fraction (one in a thousand) of the gratitude owed to the Divine.