In Chapter 13, Poem 4 of Mokhtar Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar explores the tragic state of humanity trapped in worldly desires and spiritual slumber. The poem emphasizes that people perish while still chasing vain hopes ('Everyone died in a desire'). Attar uses the metaphor of dawn to represent spiritual truth or the end of life's opportunity, lamenting that despite the 'day having dawned', individuals remain asleep to their higher spiritual calling. This reflects a core Sufi theme: the necessity of awakening to divine reality before physical death makes such realization impossible.