This concept encapsulates the intertwined themes of fear, danger, and profound emotional suffering on the mystical path of love, as depicted in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 41, Poem 37). The poem emphasizes that true passion inevitably brings deep affliction—represented by metaphors like 'dawn sighs,' 'the blood of the heart,' and 'salt upon the liver.' These imagery highlight the lover's continuous state of vulnerability and the agonizing, yet accepted, pain that accompanies divine or ultimate love.