In Chapter 9, Poem 19 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker laments the painful condition of dying while remaining oblivious to his true self. The poem uses the metaphor of a blood-stained liver to convey profound emotional and spiritual suffering. Unable to rediscover his authentic spiritual life, the speaker is subjected to a continuous, daily experience of death in myriad forms, illustrating the unending agony of self-alienation and existential loss on the mystical path.