In Section 1 of the Seventeenth Discourse of Farid al-Din Attar's Asrar Nameh, the poet delivers a stark warning against spiritual heedlessness (غفلت). He addresses those who blindly chase the material world, noting that they spend their lives seeking the 'scent of life' but fail to experience true, spiritual existence. Attar cautions that such negligent individuals will only awaken to their errors and profound emptiness when it is too late. Upon facing death, their spiritual inversion is revealed, and they are left with deep regret for having lived a life of superficial claims rather than substantive spiritual reality.