In Chapter 7, Poem 32 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet employs the metaphor of the sun and its shadow to articulate the relationship between Divine Reality and human existence. The Divine is represented as the ever-present, luminous 'sun,' while human existence is cast as a mere dependent 'shadow' lacking any true, independent essence from the void of non-existence. Attar warns that for the shadow to claim existence or indulge in self-worship is 'ill-omened' (a grave spiritual error). The poem underscores the fundamental Sufi tenet that true existence belongs exclusively to the Absolute, and any assertion of an independent ego is a profound illusion.