In Chapter 24, Poem 21 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet contemplates the separation of the soul (the luminous essence) from the body and the resulting regret. The poem emphasizes the transient and ultimately forgotten nature of the physical form, noting that once buried, future generations will carelessly walk over the earth without recognizing or remembering the physical decay occurring beneath them. This imagery serves to detach the reader from physical existence and highlights the inevitability of mortality and the anonymity of the grave.