In Chapter 9, Poem 26 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker expresses profound mystical despair and bewilderment. By describing the heart as a 'house of sorrow' and the soul as a 'burnt madman,' the poem highlights the painful, consuming nature of the spiritual path. Furthermore, the mystic's existence in the ephemeral world (the 'house of passing') is characterized by total ignorance and detachment, reducing their worldly life to passive observation or a mere legend. This reflects the Sufi theme of alienation from the material world and the overwhelming state of spiritual unknowing.