In Chapter 11, Poem 17 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the theme of sudden spiritual annihilation (fana) following a lifetime of arduous preparation. The metaphor of pouring oil into a lamp for 'thirty years' illustrates the long, painstaking efforts of the seeker on the perilous spiritual path. However, the culmination of these efforts is not a gradual illumination, but rather a single, all-consuming flame of divine realization that instantaneously burns away the lamp and its oil, symbolizing the complete destruction of the ego and self in the presence of the Beloved.