In Attar's Mosibat Nameh (Section 9 of the 22nd Discourse), the story recounts how the Sufi mystic Shibli was perceived as mad and placed among the insane by the king. When the king ordered medicine to cure him, Shibli declared that his condition was not an ordinary illness to be cured by physical remedies, but rather a divine, incurable pain of love for God. This allegory illustrates the profound contrast between the worldly understanding of sanity and the mystical state of spiritual intoxication, demonstrating that the 'madman' experiences a profound connection with the divine that ordinary intellect (represented by the king and his medicine) cannot comprehend.