In Chapter 14, Poem 1 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet expresses profound world-weariness, questioning the value of worldly existence. The quatrain emphasizes the illusion of material gain and loss ('more and less') and asserts that the entire universe is essentially 'worth nothing' (به هیچ مینیرزد). Consequently, the poet challenges the necessity of enduring grief and suffering for something so fundamentally devoid of true value, reflecting a deeply ascetic or world-renouncing perspective.