Obstacles to perfection and ways to face them, in Mantiq al-Tair Attar

The path to reach Hazrat Haq is a long and winding path. In order to successfully pass through this difficult pass, one must know the road obstacles well. This research aims to examine the obstacles to human perfection and the way to face these obstacles from the perspective of the great Islamic mystic, Attar Neyshabouri in Mantiq al-Tair. Descriptive and rational, used to analyze information. Doing this research is necessary and necessary because Attar in Mantiq al-Tair has used a special method to express the obstacles to perfection and how to deal with them, which is definitely more effective than others. In this study, any factor that, from Attar's point of view, prevents man from attaining nearness to God, has been referred to as "obstacle". Based on the results, factors such as: worldliness, egoism, status worship Ignorance and ... are obstacles to divine closeness and human perfection, and the seeker to God must know these obstacles and ways to face them, in order to achieve true perfection.