In Poem 14 of Chapter 47 in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the candle is used as a central metaphor to depict the lover's consuming passion and chaotic state. The poem draws an analogy between the lover's disheveled affairs and the beloved's tresses. It further justifies the lover's lack of peace by comparing him to a candle that literally has its 'head in the fire' (the burning wick), symbolizing an existence wholly engulfed by the destructive yet inevitable fire of love.