In Poem 17 of Chapter 22 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, death is metaphorically described as a 'mirror of disgrace and infamy' (آینهٔ فضی��ت و رسوایی) that exposes the emptiness of worldly attachments. The poem explains that when the profound truth of death illuminates the soul, it shatters the ego, revealing that the individual's separate, material existence was always an illusion and they were 'never truly there.'