In Chapter 38, Poem 6 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet uses the classical imagery of the beloved's tresses (زلف) and teeth (دندان) to contrast states of spiritual bewilderment and divine order. The disarray and darkness of the tresses represent the lover's heart feeling oppressed and entangled in the multiplicity of the world. In contrast, the orderly, pearl-like row of the beloved's teeth symbolizes the harmonious and illuminating power of divine beauty, which restores order (منظوم) to the lover's disheveled state.