In Chapter 8, Poem 7 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet uses the metaphors of fire, ash, and blood to describe the grueling but necessary process of spiritual annihilation (Fana). The intense fire of initial spiritual pursuit ultimately reduces the seeker to ash, symbolizing the total destruction of the ego and worldly attachments. Attar further warns that even if the physical body purifies and transforms into the spiritual heart, the journey's culmination requires the heart itself to 'become blood'—representing profound suffering, ultimate sacrifice, and the complete dissolution of the self into the Divine.