In this parable from Attar's Mosibat Nameh, a dying madman laments his prolonged agony of death and questions God about the purpose of creation and transience. He argues that if he had never been brought into existence, he would have been spared the pain of dying. The allegory reflects a profound Sufi critique of existential suffering and the painful transition of death, highlighting the tension between divine creation and the inevitability of mortality.