In Chapter 48, Poem 14 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the candle's interaction with the snuffer (shears used to trim the wick) serves as a metaphor for the self-sacrificing lover and their painful purification. The candle is compared to a pen, whose head must be cut (trimmed) to function, illustrating how destruction and suffering are inherent to its expression. Despite the candle's humble pleas, its fiery breath (passion or sighs) inevitably inflames the snuffer, showing that the lover's suffering is both destructive to the self and transformational to the elements surrounding it.