In Chapter 47, Poem 111 of the Mokhtar Nameh, Attar uses the metaphor of divorce (طلاق) to describe the separation between the candle and its flame. The flame is addressed as one who has severed ties and divorced the candle's slender body. By urging the fire to have mercy and flee from the candle's tearful eyes (the melting wax), the poem highlights the painful, irreconcilable division between the lover (symbolized by the melting candle) and the consuming passion (the flame), declaring that they can no longer be reunited on this night.