In this section of Attar's Mosibat Nameh, a spiritual master ('a perfect one') explains that all fears of sin, the trials of the path, the agony of death, the torment of the grave, and the judgments of the scales (Mizan) and the bridge (Sirat) are trivial compared to the pain of separation (firaq) from the Divine. The poem emphasizes that only a true lover, whose heart is filled with yearning, can comprehend the burning agony of this separation, while those devoid of love remain spiritually dead.