In Chapter 32, Poem 38 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the concept of divine love as the 'alchemy of bewilderment' (کیمیای سرگردانی). Unlike worldly alchemy that transmutes base metals into gold, this spiritual alchemy transforms the seeker into a state of sheer astonishment and wandering. The quatrain highlights a central paradox in Sufi mystical love: the Beloved is intimately aware of the lover's agonizing state, yet seemingly allows the suffering (turning the heart to blood) to persist in order to fully strip the ego and refine the seeker's soul.