In Chapter 47, Poem 7 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet uses the metaphor of a candle to illustrate the transformative and paradoxical power of divine love. The candle "weeps" as it burns, yet it is compared to the laughing morning. Crucially, the concept of being "beheaded" before the Beloved is presented as a source of true life. This refers to the practice of trimming a candle's burnt wick, which causes it to burn brighter. Spiritually, it symbolizes how the annihilation of the ego in the presence of the Divine grants eternal, radiant spiritual life.