In the discourse of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq in Attar's Elahi Nameh, a key Sufi teaching is presented through the contrast between ruin and prosperity. The poem describes the material world (dunya) as a decomposing ruin, asserting that the heart of one who pursues worldly power and chooses this ruin becomes a hundred times more ruined itself. In contrast, the hereafter (aqba) is depicted as a prosperous, cultivated place, and the heart that is filled with divine light and seeks only the hereafter is even more prosperous. This metaphor teaches that the spiritual state of the human heart is shaped by its attachments: desiring the transient, decaying world corrupts the soul, while desiring the eternal hereafter leads to ultimate spiritual abundance and contentment.