The Revelation of the 'Si Morgh' and the Divine Mirror in Attar's Allegory
In the climactic scene of Farid al-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds, the surviving thirty birds (si morgh in Persian) finally reach the court of the majestic Simorgh. To their astonishment, they discover that the divine being they have been seeking is a mirror reflecting their own faces. Through this profound linguistic pun on 'si morgh' (thirty birds) and 'Simorgh', alongside the metaphor of the mirror, Attar allegorizes the ultimate Sufi realization of divine unity. It demonstrates that after the annihilation of the ego (fana), the seeker realizes that their true essence and the Divine are inextricably one.
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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course