In Farid al-Din Attar's Conference of the Birds, the 'Tale of the Loving Watchman Who Never Slept' serves as an allegory for the intense spiritual vigilance and restlessness characteristic of the true lover on the Sufi path. The watchman, whose profession already requires physical wakefulness, finds that the affliction of love makes sleep entirely impossible. He explains to a companion that sleep is fundamentally incompatible with the overwhelming demands of love. Attar uses this narrative to illustrate that a genuine spiritual seeker must endure continuous, restless wakefulness, as true devotion transforms ordinary vigilance into an all-consuming state of passionate awareness and longing for the Divine Beloved.