Sufi COMMON The Simurgh — The Bird That Is Itself the Goal ATK 5 DEF 9 SPR 10 SPD 9 INT 10 CHA – WIS – END – Special Mirror of the Thirty Pre-Islamic Persian mythology; Sufi allegorical use fully developed in Attar's *Mantiq al-Tayr* (c. 1177 CE); remains a living symbol in Persian poetry