In Chapter 9, Poem 9 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet articulates a state of profound existential liminality and spiritual bewilderment (hayrat). The speaker describes being suspended between binary states—neither great nor small, neither living nor dying, and unable to either remain or be carried away. This reflects a crucial station in the mystical path where the soul is stripped of definitive earthly qualities, conceptual certainty, and worldly existence, resting in absolute perplexity before the divine.