In Chapter 18, Poem 29 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet addresses the inescapable nature of existential or spiritual sorrow. The verses utilize striking physical metaphors—instructing the reader to 'sit in ashes and roll in blood'—to convey the sheer intensity of the restless heart's pain. This poem suggests an absolute immersion in mourning, framing the experience of countless, overwhelming grief not as something to be avoided, but as an inevitable and profound state of the human condition or the seeker's path.