In Attar's 'The Tale of the Arab Who Ended Up in Persia and His Adventure with the Qalandars' within Manteq al-Tayr, the Qalandars symbolize radical spiritual seekers who have completely abandoned worldly attachments, social conventions, and self-interest in their pursuit of divine truth. When the Arab encounters them, he loses his 'intellect and soul' (عقل و جان). This loss represents the Sufi concept of spiritual annihilation (fana) and the necessary destruction of the conventional ego and worldly intellect required to enter the path of pure, unadulterated spiritual love.

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در عجم افتاد خلقی از عرب 
ماند از رسم عجم او در عجب
در نظاره می گذشت آن بی خبر 
بر قلندر راه افتادش مگر
دید مشتی شنگ را، نه سر نه تن 
هر دو عالم باخته بی یک سخن
جمله کم زن مهره دزد پاک بر 
در پلیدی هریک از هم پاک تر
هر یکی را کرده ای دزدی به دست 
هیچ دردی ناچشیده جمله مست
چون بدید آن قوم را میلش فتاد 
عقل و جان بر شارع سیلش فتاد
چون قلندریان چنانش یافتند 
آب برده عقل و جانش یافتند
جمله گفتندش درآ ای هیچ کس 
او درون شد بیش و کم این بود بس
کرد رندی مست از یک دردیش 
محو شد از خویش و گم شد مردیش
مال و ملک و سیم و زر بودش بسی 
برد ازو در یک ندب حالی کسی
رندی آمد دردی افزونش داد 
وز قلندر عور سر بیرونش داد
مرد می شد همچنان تا با عرب 
عور و مفلس، تشنه جان و خشک لب
اهل او گفتند بس آشفته ای 
کو زر و سیمت، کجا تو خفته ای
سیم و زر شد، آمد آشفتن ترا 
شوم بود این در عجم رفتن ترا
دزد راهت زد، کجا شد مال تو 
شرح ده تا من بدانم حال تو
گفت می رفتم خرامان در رهی 
اوفتاده بر قلندر ناگهی
هیچ دیگر می ندانم نیز من 
سیم و زر رفت وشدم ناچیز من
گفت وصف این قلندر کن مرا 
گفت وصف اینست و بس قال اندرا
مرد اعرابی فنایی مانده بود 
زان همه قال اندرایی مانده بود
پای درنه یا سر خود گیر تو 
جان ببر یا نه به جان بپذیر تو
گر تو بپذیری به جان اسرار عشق 
جان فشانان سرکنی در کار عشق
جان فشانی و بمانی برهنه 
ماندت قال اندرایی دربنه

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## English translation
An Arab ended up in Persia,
And was amazed by the customs of the Persians.
While passing through, gazing around in ignorance,
By chance, his path led him to the Qalandars.
He saw a group of carefree ones, with neither head nor body,
Who had lost both worlds without uttering a word.
All of them low-gamblers and clean-sweeping thieves,
Each cleaner than the other in their state of impurity.
Each holding a stolen goblet in hand,
Without having tasted any sorrow, all completely intoxicated.
When he saw that crowd, he felt an attraction to them,
His intellect and soul were swept away in the path of the flood.
When the Qalandars found him in this state,
And saw that his intellect and soul were swept away by water,
They all said to him, 'Come in, O nobody!'
He entered, and this was all that happened, no more, no less.
A rogue made him drunk with a single dreg of wine,
He was obliterated from himself, and his ego was lost.
He had much wealth, property, silver, and gold;
Someone won it all from him in a single game.
A rogue came and gave him more dregs of wine,
And sent him out from the Qalandars completely naked.
The man walked back until he reached the Arabs,
Naked, penniless, with a thirsty soul and dry lips.
His family said, 'You are utterly distraught!
Where is your silver and gold? Where have you been sleeping?
Your silver and gold are gone, and distraction has come to you;
Ominous was this journey of yours to Persia.
Did a highwayman rob you? Where did your wealth go?
Explain it so that I may know your state.'
He said, 'I was walking gracefully along a path,
When suddenly I fell upon the Qalandars.
I know absolutely nothing else;
My silver and gold are gone, and I have become nothing.'
They said, 'Describe this Qalandar to me.'
He said, 'Their description is only this: Come in!'
The Arab man had remained in a state of annihilation,
Possessed by that call of 'Come in!'.
Step in, or go your own way;
Take your life away, or accept with your soul.
If you accept the secrets of love with your soul,
You will spend your life devotedly in the work of love.
You will sacrifice your life and remain naked,
And that 'Come in!' will remain in your heart.

حکایت عربی که در عجم افتاد و سر گذشت او با قلندران / The Tale of the Arab Who Ended Up in Persia and His Adventure with the Qalandars

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