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The Transience of Worldly Accumulations and the Inevitability of Departure in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 22, Poem 28)
In Chapter 22, Poem 28 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the impermanence of worldly benefits and the ultimate futility of material accumulation. By repeatedly prompting the reader to 'assume' (گیر) they have already achieved every worldly desire or sown every seed their heart wished for, Attar frames life's acquisitions as ultimately hollow. He starkly contrasts these imagined worldly fulfillments with the inevitable reality of death, emphasizing that regardless of what one has gathered in life, it must all be abandoned at the end. The poem serves as a profound meditation on detachment and the transient nature of human existence.
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Persian Literature Prerequisite Course