In Farid al-Din Attar's Mantiq al-Tayr, the tale of a heedless person burning aloe wood illustrates the consuming and agonizing nature of divine love. The burning wood symbolizes the devoted lover, enduring intense suffering and dissolution of self, while onlookers merely enjoy the pleasant fragrance of their sacrifice. The poem deepens this metaphor as a bird laments that love has "set fire to his entire harvest" and stripped him of reason. This imagery emphasizes the Sufi principle that true spiritual pursuit necessitates the complete, painful incineration of the seeker's ego and worldly attachments in the fire of divine love.