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The Unknowable Divine Secret and the Futility of Seeking in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 27, Poem 28)

In Chapter 27, Poem 28 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker addresses the ultimate futility of human efforts to comprehend the divine secret. The poem asserts that despite extensive seeking, one gains nothing ("not even a fly"), because the ultimate truth is inherently unknowable. Attar emphasizes that in no spiritual station has anyone ever known, nor will anyone ever know, this profound mystery, thereby highlighting the absolute limits of human understanding and the transcendent, inaccessible nature of the Divine.

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