In Chapter 25, Poem 30 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the profound devastation of losing a beloved to death. The quatrain relies on the striking contrast between the beloved's radiant, 'moon-like face' and the bleakness of the 'black earth' where they are buried. The speaker asserts that finding peace or 'slumbering' after such a loss is a betrayal worse than disbelief (kufr), emphasizing a deep psychological and spiritual anguish where existence itself loses its prospect and meaning without the beloved's presence.