The Shadow And The Sun

We discussed the following verse today about shadows and the sun. I perchanced upon a relevant picture. Look at it carefully. It is from the National Geographic and was taken directly above these camels in the desert at sunset. The camels are actually the little white lines in the picture. The big black camels you see are actually shadows. Masya-Allah!

“And when that sun, My countenance, is here
What can these shadows do but disappear?
Shadows are swallowed by the sun, and he
Who's lost in God is from himself set free;

Don't chatter about lost - be lost! Repent,
And give up vain, self-centred argument;
If one can lose the Self, in all the earth
No other being can approach his worth.”

Conference of the Birds, Farid ud-Din Attar