In Chapter 24, Poem 39 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet engages in a profound meditation on human mortality and the vast expanse of nonexistence. By gazing into the 'bed of earth', the speaker perceives a continuum of souls, seeing both the deceased (the 'hidden ones' who have gone) and those yet to be born ('those who have not come'). This vision emphasizes the extreme transience of physical life, placing human existence as a brief interlude between the past and future voids—a recurring theme in Sufi reflections on the impermanence of the material world.