In Poem 27 from Chapter 13 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet depicts the overwhelming and paralyzing effect of divine love on both the soul and the body. The lover is caught in a paradoxical state of profound helplessness—unable to endure the intensity of love, yet equally unable to escape it. This "wondrous affair" highlights the absolute powerlessness of the human condition when confronted with the consuming force of divine love, leaving the lover with neither the means to flee nor the strength to remain.