This poem describes a state of intense spiritual transformation characterized by a cycle of dying and being reborn ('Sometimes I died... sometimes I was born'). Attar links this 'wondrous and difficult situation' to a sudden recovery of a forgotten, ineffable memory ('I remembered that which cannot be remembered'). This refers to the Sufi concept of the primordial covenant (Alast), where the soul's remembrance of its divine origin causes a breakdown of the temporal self and a restoration of spiritual identity.