In Chapter 26, Poem 22 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker employs extreme hyperbole to illustrate the depth of their romantic or spiritual suffering. The imagery of 'blood-stained tears' (خون پالا اشک) rising 'a hundred measures' above the head depicts a state of drowning in one's own sorrow. The poem contrasts the permanent pain settled in the heart with the futility of shedding 'a hundred oceans of tears' (صد دریا اشک), conveying that the affliction caused by the beloved is absolute and cannot be washed away or consoled by any magnitude of weeping.