In Chapter 31, Poem 42 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the metaphysical distance between the Creator and the creation using the metaphor of the Sun and a shadow. The poem addresses the human heart, criticizing its naive desire for a 'kindred spirit' or peer-like relationship with the Divine. By portraying God as the radiant Sun in the sky and the human being as a mere shadow on the earth, Attar emphasizes the absolute nothingness of the seeker. A shadow possesses no independent existence or substance; thus, it cannot walk beside the Sun as an equal, but can only humbly follow behind, acknowledging its own insignificance.