In Chapter 45, Poem 54 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the rose serves as a metaphor for the transience of life. The speaker observes that existence is so fleeting it is as if it 'is not.' In response, the rose describes its own state of constant motion and impermanence: because there is 'no place to settle in the world,' it is continuously 'passing from hand to hand' (دست به دست). This imagery highlights the instability of worldly life, capturing both the physical fate of plucked flowers and the spiritual reality of human ephemerality.