In Chapter 29, Poem 1 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the soul is depicted as a restless, frenzied lover existing in a paradoxical state ('neither non-existent nor existent'). The poem centers on the profound metaphor of the soul as a wondrous, unweaned child that refuses to detach from the 'breast of the Pre-Eternal Covenant' (Alast). This imagery references the Day of Alast, the primordial moment before physical creation when human souls acknowledged God's lordship (Quran 7:172). Attar uses this metaphor to illustrate that the soul's spiritual intoxication and insatiable divine yearning are innate, stemming directly from its original, unbroken bond with the Creator.