In Poem 39 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet contrasts the boundless nature of the Divine (represented as the ocean) with the insignificance and hubris of the individual (the atom). The poem explores a fundamental spiritual illusion: although no single entity can encompass the entirety of the divine reality or cosmic affairs, each individual "atom" egoistically imagines that it bears the ultimate responsibility or possesses the whole. This highlights the spiritual blindness caused by ego, contrasting the unified vastness of the Divine with the limited, self-centered perception of the individual.