In this poem from the Mokhtar Nameh, Attar explores the spiritual paradox of selfhood and divine union. He asserts that any pursuit directed toward the ego ('for our own sake') becomes a spiritual calamity. Furthermore, he contrasts division (tafraqa) and union (jam'iyyat), explaining that while division enables the survival (baqa) of individual existence, spiritual union necessitates the annihilation (fana) of the self.