In Chapter 5, Poem 8 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet references the Islamic concept of the Covenant of Alast (derived from Quran 7:172, where unembodied souls testified to God's lordship before creation). Attar uses this primordial pact to emphasize the soul's divine origin, asserting that both the high and low aspects of human existence emanate directly from the Divine ('from Us'). The poem encourages the spiritual seeker to recognize this profound ontological dependence and surrender their illusory independent ego, recognizing that their true existence and identity are rooted solely in the Divine.