In Chapter 35, Poem 31 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet employs a wordplay on the term 'mardom' (مردم), which means both 'people' and the 'pupil of the eye'. The poem describes how excessive weeping in separation from the beloved washes away the pupil's form from the eye. This metaphor emphasizes the blinding intensity of the lover's grief and the physical toll of longing, illustrating that the lover is unable to see anything else once the beloved (described as a moon to whom stars prostrate) is lost from sight.