In Chapter 47, Poem 15 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet employs the metaphor of the candle to articulate the existential necessity of the lover's pain. The beloved is depicted as the candle, and the lover's existence depends on being consumed by this fire. The paradox presented is that life without the burning agony of love is equivalent to death, highlighting the Sufi concept of enduring pain for spiritual vitality and eventual annihilation in the beloved.