In this tale from Jami's Baharestan, the wise fool Bahlool is mockingly congratulated by a vizier for being appointed by Harun al-Rashid as commander over apes and swine. Instead of taking offense, Bahlool turns the insult back: he orders the vizier to obey him, since the vizier — as the one who conveyed the appointment — must count among the beasts he now commands. The verses reinforce this, naming the vizier as the first to fall in among the herd of bears and swine.

The tale uses the wise-fool (عاقل دیوانه) figure to satirize the servility of court flatterers and to expose how those who serve worldly power debase themselves. Its wit lies in a logical reversal that converts a demeaning appointment into a rebuke of the one who announced it — a compact lesson in reading power and flattery critically.