In Chapter 13, Poem 25 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet expresses the profound suffering and ultimate futility of all personal efforts or 'stratagems' (حیله) in the path of divine love. The vivid imagery of 'drinking the blood of the heart' and 'wallowing in the blood of the liver' illustrates intense spiritual anguish. Ultimately, the poem suggests that love demands a surrender that renders all intellectual or calculated approaches useless, resulting in accomplishing 'nothing' through one's own devices.