In Chapter 41, Poem 3 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet invokes the classic Sufi metaphor of the candle and the moth to describe the state of the lover's heart. The lover (the moth) is 'mad' with an irresistible attraction to the divine beloved (the candle), signifying the soul's desire for self-annihilation in the divine light. The poem suggests that rational attempts or tales of those who tried to reach the Divine without this self-consuming devotion are futile, rendering their existence mere 'fables' compared to the true, self-effacing love of the moth.