In Chapter 48, Poem 13 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the candle's dialogue introduces a paradoxical metaphor where the mystical fire passing over its head behaves like water. Instead of extinguishing the flame, this overflowing fire intensifies the internal and external burning. This imagery depicts the overwhelming nature of divine love or spiritual suffering, which transcends rational physical limits and consumes the seeker completely once it surpasses all boundaries.