In Chapter 14, Poem 25 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker laments the excruciating and prolonged agony of separation from the Beloved. This grief is elevated to a cosmic scale, described as a pain so intense that it 'makes the heavens bow.' The quatrain concludes with a profound paradox: the sorrow of longing has entirely consumed and obliterated the speaker's heart, leading to the despairing question of how one can continue to endure 'heartache' when the heart itself no longer exists.