In Chapter 5, Poem 2 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet addresses the fundamental Sufi theme of the illusion of the independent self in the face of Divine Reality. The poem is written from the perspective of the Divine, declaring that because God is entirely self-manifesting through His own essence ('Since we are manifest by our own existence'), any separate existence claimed by the individual or the universe is merely an illusion. The phrase 'You are nothing, yet you imagine' encapsulates the concept that human selfhood and the perceived reality of the ego are fundamentally non-existent, serving only as an imagined separation from the absolute, singular reality of God.