In Chapter 12, Poem 35 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet concludes that after traversing the world and experiencing contrasting states—from the celestial 'seven gardens' to the lowly 'ash-pit'—his ultimate realization is that the self is its own primary obstacle. The assertion that 'I was my own bond' (دیار نبود بند من، من بودم) illustrates the core mystical concept that true liberation is not physical or spatial, but requires breaking free from the confines of the ego.