A recurring motif in the text is the "entanglement of the soul in the material world" and the necessity of "dying before one dies"—annihilating the ego to witness the Divine.
Though more central to the Conference of the Birds , the Asrar-Nama also alludes to the stages of spiritual development: Quest, Love, Knowledge, Detachment, Unity, Wonderment, and Poverty/Annihilation. Accessing the PDF and Translations Translating Classical Iranian Poetry: Farid al-Din Attar book of secrets attar of nishapur pdf
Attar of Nishapur (c. 1145–1221) was an apothecary by trade—his pen name, Attar , means "perfumer" or "pharmacist". He is often cited as the bridge between early Sufism and the later, more lyrical school of . A recurring motif in the text is the