In this allegory from Attar's Mosibat Nameh, an impoverished old woman sits by a graveyard, adding a stitch to her worn cloak each time a corpse is brought in. However, when a sudden influx of bodies overwhelms her, she breaks her needle and thread in despair, declaring the task beyond her capacity. The parable serves as a metaphor for the sheer, overwhelming scale and inevitability of death, illustrating human helplessness and our inability to measure or keep pace with mortality.