In Chapter 13, Poem 24 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the speaker expresses a profound sense of spiritual unworthiness and shame before the Divine. The poem reflects on the poet's inability to endure the overwhelming pain of divine love and their deep remorse for a life spent in worldly vanities. The central question of how to present a 'ruined' face, marred by countless worthless pursuits, to the Beloved highlights the mystical theme of acknowledging one's spiritual poverty, regret, and the perceived inadequacy of the self when confronting the purity of God.