In Poem 26 of Chapter 11 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the theme of spiritual annihilation (fana) and the incommunicability of ultimate divine mysteries. The poem uses the metaphor of tasting a fatal poison to describe the encounter with the 'secret of time' and the divine attributes of grace and wrath. Just as a person who tastes a deadly poison dies instantly and cannot describe its flavor, the soul that truly experiences these divine secrets is annihilated in the process, making it impossible to comprehend or report the experience back to the material world.