In Chapter 45, Poem 44 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the nightingale asks the rose for union. The rose replies by highlighting a tragic paradox of its existence: its blooming is simultaneously a continuous process of falling apart or scattering. Because its life is inherently transient and self-consuming, the rose argues that it cannot form a lasting bond with the nightingale, symbolizing the impossibility of enduring union with ephemeral worldly beauty.