In Chapter 14, Poem 24 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet explores the profound helplessness and unbearable burden of spiritual love. The poem employs a striking hyperbole, stating that a 'single speck' of the lover's spiritual burden would shatter a mountain into a hundred pieces. This metaphor serves to emphasize the sheer gravity and agonizing weight of divine love. It highlights the paradox of the human soul which, despite being frail and tormented, is capable of bearing a mystical burden that surpasses the endurance of the physical world's mightiest structures.