In Chapter 44, Poem 12 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet contrasts superficial engagement and intellectual disputation (داوری) with the profound, transformative experience of spiritual pain (درد). The speaker requests a 'speck of pain' from the Beloved to demonstrate a state of complete devotion, which in the eyes of conventional religion might appear as 'straying' (گمراهی) or 'infidelity' (کافری). In Sufi literature, this 'infidelity' often symbolizes a love so absolute that it transcends formal, dogmatic boundaries, proving the lover's sincerity over mere superficial claims.