In Farid al-Din Attar's Asrar Nameh, the story of the beautiful king playing polo and the impoverished bathhouse furnace-heater who falls desperately in love with him serves as a powerful allegory for the human soul's longing for the Divine Beloved. The king symbolizes the majestic, unattainable beauty of God, while the humble furnace-heater represents the lowly seeker consumed by the fire of spiritual devotion. Attar uses the immense social disparity between the two characters to illustrate the transcendent, unconditional nature of divine love, which disregards worldly status and requires the complete surrender of the lover's ego.