In Poem 12 of Chapter 26 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, a profound dialogue occurs between the speaker and their own weeping eye. The speaker urges the eye to sleep and find respite to ease the "ruined heart." However, the eye responds that it is "drowning in fire"—representing the intense, burning sorrow or longing of the soul—and insists that this inner conflagration can only be extinguished or endured through the constant flow of tears (water). This interplay highlights the mystical paradox where the consuming fire of spiritual love necessitates an endless flood of weeping, emphasizing the inescapable nature of suffering and purification on the Sufi path.