In Poem 16 of Chapter 28 of Mokhtar Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar explores the paradox of finding joy in spiritual suffering. The speaker welcomes the "fire" of divine love as an experience that is fitting for their suffering heart. Suspended constantly between the fear and hope of the Beloved, the lover delights in being "turned upside down" (زیر و زبر آمدن), illustrating the Sufi realization that the complete upheaval and transformation of the self is a necessary and ecstatic state on the path of divine love.