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Welcoming Death and the Preference for Non-Existence in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 23, Poem 16)
In Chapter 23, Poem 16 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet expresses a profound despair at the inability to reach the ultimate spiritual goal. Faced with this insurmountable barrier, the speaker conceptualizes worldly life as a continuous state of dying. Consequently, actual death and non-existence are welcomed not as a tragedy, but as a preferred liberation and a transition to a better state, contrasting the suffering of living with the peace of spiritual annihilation.
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Updated 2026-07-04
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