In Chapter 26, Poem 43 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet utilizes extreme hyperbolic imagery to articulate the boundless grief of separation. The speaker wishes that each tear shed could become 'a thousand oceans' (هزار دریا), illustrating a volume of sorrow that defies physical limits. This cosmic scale of weeping is directly attributed to the heart's condition as a 'mad lover' (عاشق شیدا), an affliction that strips away any capacity for patience or composure. The quatrain demonstrates how the intensity of mystical longing and the resulting sorrow are so vast that they can only be expressed through impossible, world-engulfing metaphors.