In Mahmud Shabestari's Gulshan-i Raz (The Rose Garden of Mystery), the "tavern" (kharabat) serves as a central metaphor for spiritual ruin and self-effacement. As elaborated in Section 57, to become a haunter of the tavern means to be liberated from the ego and the limitations of selfhood. The tavern represents a placeless, boundless realm of the divine presence where mystical lovers abandon all worldly attachments, religious formalism, and the duality of self. In this state of "ruin," the seeker achieves absolute unity (Tawhid) by dropping all worldly relations and personal identity.