This concept explores the central theme in Chapter 18, Poem 35 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh. The poem critiques the spiritual seeker who remains trapped in self-love and personal caprice (hawa). Attar emphasizes that the mere accumulation of intellectual knowledge is spiritually futile if the ego remains intact. No matter how much one learns or studies, if the fundamental orientation of the self is not transformed, the seeker remains spiritually stagnant in their original, unrefined state.