In this quatrain, Attar portrays the celestial sphere as an active, desperate seeker, spinning perpetually in anticipation of the Divine. The twilight (shafaq) is metaphorically described as the blood resulting from its agonizing yearnings from dusk till dawn. Because it can find no direct path forward or backward to reach the Divine, the sphere recoils upon itself, expanding its search through countless epochs. This vividly illustrates the Sufi themes of cosmic bewilderment and the ultimate inaccessibility of the Divine essence.