Transcending Dualities and the Illusion of Perception in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 7, Poem 5)
In Chapter 7, Poem 5 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the transcendental state of Divine Unity (Tawhid) and the inherent limitations of human perception. Attar advises the spiritual seeker that in the presence of Unity, temporal and spatial dualities like 'before and after' cease to exist. The Divine can neither be attributed to the self nor conceived as entirely devoid of it. The poem asserts that human vision is fundamentally distorted, causing individuals to perceive multiplicity and independent existence in what is actually nothing but a transient, illusory display of the Divine essence.
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