In Chapter 35, Poem 61 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the Sufi motif of the beloved's tresses (zulf) acting as a chain (zanjir) for the lover's madness (divanegi).

When offered a remedy or the immediate fulfillment of any desire, the lover declines conventional relief and instead requests the beloved's hair. In mystical literature, the lover's madness represents the ecstatic state of divine intoxication and self-transcendence, which refuses the limits of rational intellect. Rather than desiring a cure for this madness, the mystic seeks the beloved's tresses to bind and anchor their spiritual ecstasy, illustrating the complete and joyful submission of the mystic to the sweet captivity of divine love.