In the Elahi Nameh, Farid al-Din Attar tells the story of a clairvoyant seer who is taken to the grave of the famous poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam. The seer reveals that despite Khayyam's massive worldly learning and claims to intellectual knowledge, he stands in a state of incompleteness and profound embarrassment before the divine court, sweating with shame at the realization of his own ignorance. Attar uses this story to critique the limits of rational intellect and philosophical inquiry, showing that intellectual arrogance is a major impediment to spiritual realization and true proximity to God.