In this allegory from Attar's Mosibat Nameh, a woman who has lost her child is weeping in distress. A Sufi advises her to practice submission (taslim) and have faith that if she does not find the child in this world, she will find him in the hereafter. The woman rejects this detached counsel, arguing that existence is defined by presence in one of the two worlds (this life or the next) and that her immediate grief cannot be pacified by abstract spiritual promises. The story serves to illustrate the tension between human emotion (maternal love) and the Sufi doctrine of total submission to divine will.