In Chapter 27, Poem 29 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet highlights the severe limitations of the human intellect (aql) when confronting the divine. The poem contrasts the soul, which navigates the spiritual path through intense longing and suffering (dwelling 'amidst blood'), with the intellect, which is easily overwhelmed by even a fraction of such hardship. Attar concludes that since reason falters at a 'single sip of pain,' it cannot establish a firm footing in the true knowledge of God (ma'rifat). The poem underscores that spiritual realization demands profound endurance, suffering, and passionate devotion rather than fragile rational comprehension.