This concept explores Attar's depiction of profound, world-altering sorrow in Chapter 43, Poem 18 of Mokhtar Nameh. The poem illustrates a speaker whose heart has retreated from worldly pursuits, overwhelmed by a grief so absolute that expressing even a single word of it causes the very atoms of the universe to join in mourning. This reflects the mystic theme of macrocosmic empathy with human spiritual pain, where the universe itself reflects the internal state of the lover.