In Chapter 28, Poem 18 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker expresses an intense yearning for spiritual intimacy, symbolized by the desire to embrace the Beloved. This culminating wish follows a state of continuous lamentation, intoxication by the 'wine of love,' and an existential oscillation between self-negation ('make myself nothing') and self-affirmation ('bring myself into existence'). The poem illustrates the mystical journey where the lover fluctuates between self-awareness and annihilation before seeking the ultimate closeness of divine union.