In Poem 34 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the morning (dawn) is personified as a deadly threat to the lover. The poet equates the arrival of dawn with the beginning of his own death, symbolizing the painful end of his nighttime union or spiritual seclusion. He appeals to the dawn's capacity for pity, suggesting that the sorrowful sighs of his heart should cause the morning to retreat halfway along its path, effectively delaying daybreak. This expands upon the mystical literary trope where the night provides intimate spiritual communion that the daybreak violently disrupts.