In Farid al-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds, situated in the Valley of Bewilderment (Vadi-ye Heyrat), the tale of the king's daughter who unites with an unconscious slave serves as an allegory for the profound spiritual bewilderment of the soul. The slave, experiencing union with the princess while completely unaware and waking up to immense confusion, symbolizes the seeker who receives a fleeting taste of the Divine Presence. This narrative illustrates the mystical state of heyrat (bewilderment), where human intellect is utterly overwhelmed and left in awe, incapable of rationally comprehending or sustaining the transcendent reality of divine union.