In Fariduddin Attar's 'The Tale of Sheikh Abu Sa'id with His Beloved' from the Elahi Nameh, the beloved rejects three specific gifts—a toothpick, sugar, and a hat—to symbolize the intense, transformative state of the true Sufi lover. The beloved explains that a toothpick is for those who eat regular food, whereas they 'drink blood' (endure constant spiritual suffering). Sugar is rejected because mundane sweetness cannot cure the deep, existential bitterness of their yearning. Finally, the hat is refused because the lover claims to be 'headless,' representing 'fana' (annihilation of the self or ego). Together, these rejections allegorize the mystic's complete transcendence of physical needs, comforts, and bodily identity in the consuming fire of divine love.