In the second poem of Chapter 25 of Mokhtar Nameh, Attar reflects on the fleeting nature of life through an elegy for a lost loved one. Comparing the departed to a "moon" and a flash of "lightning," the poem highlights the paradox of a life that ends almost as soon as it begins. The speaker moves beyond conventional grief—which focuses on where the departed has gone—to a profound philosophical inquiry about the mystery of existence, asking from where the soul originated and why it entered the world at all if its stay was destined to be so brief.