In Chapter 34, Poem 5 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the metaphor of the drop and the ocean illustrates the foundational Sufi concept of Fana (annihilation of the individual self). The Divine challenges the seeker to shed their isolated individuality ('if you are not a drop'). By relinquishing this separate, limited identity, the seeker is no longer isolated but instead attains unity with the Divine ('you will be the entire ocean'). Furthermore, the poem emphasizes that when the seeker's inner and outer states are transformed (body becoming the world, heart becoming the soul), the illusion of separation dissolves, and the seeker merges entirely into the Divine 'Us'.