In Farid al-Din Attar's Ilahi-Nama, the tale of the woman who falls in love with the prince serves as a profound allegory for absolute, unconditional devotion and the spiritual stage of self-annihilation (fana). The woman's willingness to be trampled and killed specifically by the prince's horse, rather than seeking escape or union, symbolizes the ultimate surrender of the seeker's ego and self-will to the Divine Beloved. Attar uses her complete disregard for physical suffering and her choice of death under the Beloved's feet to demonstrate that true love is completely selfless, seeking nothing for the self—not even survival—and that such absolute sincerity (sidq) is what ultimately transforms mortality into eternal spiritual life and divine grace.