In Poem 46 from Chapter 8 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker illustrates the progression of the spiritual lover. Initially, the lover expresses love through outward grief, regret, and celestial striving. Ultimately, the lover recognizes that individual existence (wujud) acts as a barrier (sadd) to divine fortune. Consequently, the lover turns away from the created world to embrace non-existence ('adam), symbolizing the Sufi path of fana (annihilation) where the self is discarded to achieve union with the Divine.