Recognizing the Creator in this world is extremely difficult, especially when one cannot even find one's own trace within the city of their own body.
The poet shares a humbling spiritual truth using the evocative image of the body as an intricate city (shahr-e-tan). If we wander lost within our own being, unable to unravel the mystery of our own soul, how can we hope to comprehend the vastness of the Creator? It gently reminds us that any search for the Divine must first begin with the difficult journey of knowing ourselves.
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