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The Selfless Heart and Spiritual Bewilderment in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 23, Poem 9)
In this poem from Chapter 23 of Mokhtar Nameh, Attar describes the profound state of spiritual selflessness (bi-khishi) and the arduous nature of the path ahead. The 'selfless heart' is depicted as weeping tears of blood constantly like a cloud, overwhelmed by the spiritual journey. When outsiders question the seeker's troubled state, the poet responds that no condition could be more severe or final than this complete loss of self in the divine quest, framing this overwhelming grief and bewilderment not as a malady, but as the ultimate, inescapable reality of spiritual annihilation.
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Updated 2026-07-04
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