In Poem 9 of Chapter 5 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet addresses the illusion of the ego and its role as a barrier to divine intimacy. The mention of the 'eighteen thousand worlds' emphasizes the vastness of creation, yet the true rarity is the spiritual vision that perceives the underlying Reality. The poem explicitly instructs the seeker to abandon the illusion of independent selfhood ('You think that you are you; nay, you are not you') and to step aside from the path of the ego in order to become an intimate (mahram) of the Divine. This reflects the core Sufi principle of fana (annihilation of the self) as an essential prerequisite for spiritual union and true mystical vision.