In Chapter 11, Poem 48 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the overwhelming nature of divine revelation and its destructive impact on the ego. The casting aside of the veil signifies the ultimate unveiling of truth, which results in violent annihilation ('He cut off my tongue and cast out my head'). The severing of the tongue symbolizes the absolute ineffability of the mystical secret: once the divine truth is revealed, the mystic is permanently stripped of both the ability and the individual selfhood required to articulate it.