Both Sanai in the Hadiqat al-Haqiqah (Section 51) and Rumi in the Masnavi (Book Five, Sections 30 and 72) frame death not as a cessation of existence, but as a profound intellectual and spiritual awakening. Sanai allegorizes that the closing of the 'eye of death' allows the true intellect ('aql) to open and perceive ultimate reality. Similarly, Rumi describes death as the lifting of the veil of worldly illusion, where the deceased—both the righteous and the wicked—experience immediate clarity and regret for their lack of spiritual preparation, contrasting the deceptive, 'reversed' perception of the worldly intellect ('aql-e kazeb) with the absolute truth revealed post-mortem.