In Chapter 23, Poem 6 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet expresses deep existential sorrow, lamenting that neither his physical body (تن) nor his spiritual heart (دل) is sound. He traces all his earthly afflictions to 'the event of the first night' (واقعهٔ ش�� نخست). In Sufi mysticism, this alludes to the pre-eternal Covenant of Alast or the initial moment of the soul's separation from the Divine and its descent into the material world, portraying human suffering and frailty as a consequence of this primordial exile.