This concept explores the central themes in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, Chapter 29, Poem 37. The poet highlights the paradox of the spiritual journey: because the divine path is infinite ('has no beginning or end'), the seeker's longing and pain are equally endless and incurable. Furthermore, Attar contrasts the relative ease of physical death or self-sacrifice ('giving up my life before Your face is easy') with the unbearable agony of separation and the impossibility of enduring patience without the vision of the Beloved. This illustrates the intense, consuming nature of mystical love in Sufi literature, where separation is portrayed as the ultimate, inescapable suffering.