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Total Self-Effacement as the Remedy for Divine Pain in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 8, Poem 47)

In Poem 47 from Chapter 8 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet describes transcending both physical and celestial realms ('bringing both worlds under our feet' and 'raising a banner upon the dome of the heavens') only to find that the pain of divine love remains without a cure. The ultimate resolution is absolute self-effacement, where the lover brings their entire self to 'less than nothing.' This concept illustrates the Sufi path where total annihilation of the ego (fana) is the only possible response or remedy to the overwhelming pain of the Divine.

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