In Chapter 27, Poem 42 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet articulates the mystical balance between fear and hope (خوف و رجا). The speaker resides in a "world of fear" but is sustained by hope in the Divine Beloved. The quatrain further highlights the infinite and expanding distance between the seeker and God: as the mystic progresses and realizes their own lowliness and insignificance, the Divine is perceived as increasingly exalted. This continuous realization makes the spiritual journey an arduous, never-ending task, emphasizing the perpetual striving required to approach the infinite.