"The Conference of the Birds" is a Sufi poetic work by the Persian poet Fariduddin Attar, consisting of 4500 verses. It narrates a symbolic story of a group of birds on a journey in search of the "Simorgh" (symbolizing God). The birds represent Sufi seekers, and the journey symbolizes various stages of divine love, beginning with the Valley of Quest and ending with the Valley of Annihilation.