In Chapter 27, Poem 43 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker articulates a classic Sufi paradox by valuing the sorrow (غم) of the Beloved over joy (شادی), and the grief of separation (فراق) over the satisfaction of union (وصال). This reflects the mystical understanding that the continuous, burning longing for the Divine is a more authentic and spiritually profound state than the complacency that might accompany attainment.