In Poem 42 of Chapter 46 in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker recounts a nighttime visitation from the Beloved. The Beloved promises to transition the speaker's soul from burning to illumination. However, this mystical encounter is abruptly cut short by the breaking of dawn. In this Sufi context, the night symbolizes the intimate, hidden space of divine union and spiritual states (haal). The dawn represents the harsh return to separation, cutting short the promised enlightenment and returning the mystic to ordinary consciousness.