In Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 16, Poem 9), the concept of helplessness (bicharegi) is paradoxically presented as the ultimate remedy for the spiritual seeker's heart. Rather than relying on personal agency or seeking worldly comfort, the mystic must embrace profound anguish ('eating one's liver') and total surrender. The poem illustrates that true spiritual realization and the final 'cure' for the soul's yearning occur all at once, but only when the seeker completely accepts their absolute powerlessness and existential poverty before the Divine.