In Chapter 16, Poem 8 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the mystical theme of an incurable, eternal spiritual pain. The quatrain asserts that because this profound sorrow has no remedy, any attempt to seek superficial joy or mirth is ultimately a loss and yields nothing. Instead, the seeker is advised to fully embrace and sit in this endless sorrow, suggesting that spiritual truth and fulfillment are found not in fleeting happiness, but in the persistent, profound experience of existential grief.