In Chapter 19, Poem 6 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet critiques the hidden egoism that can underlie spiritual seeking. The poem points out that seeking the Divine (the 'moon') merely for one's own comfort—such as to avoid the darkness of a world without the Beloved—is a form of disguised self-love. True devotion, the poem implies, requires loving the Divine for its own sake rather than for the emotional satisfaction or salvation of the seeker.