In Farid al-Din Attar's 'Mosibat Nameh', the tale of a breathtakingly beautiful boy who falls in love with his own reflection in a mirror serves as a classic Sufi allegory for Divine self-contemplation. According to Islamic mystical tradition, the Divine desired to be known and thus created the universe as a mirror to reflect His own perfect beauty. The boy's all-consuming infatuation with his own image illustrates the philosophical concept that ultimate reality consists of the Divine loving Himself, and that all worldly beauty and yearning are merely reflections of this primordial, self-directed Divine love.