In Chapter 19, Poem 1 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet articulates the Sufi principles of fana (spiritual death or annihilation) and unified devotion. The poem argues that as long as an individual's focus is scattered among worldly attachments, they cannot be a true servant of the Divine. True spiritual life (baqa), it suggests, is only attainable when one 'dies' to all other things, dedicating their existence entirely to God.