Both this Baharestan section by Jami and Section 56 of Sanai's Hadiqat al-Haqiqah use an almost identical frame: a fox is offered a generous payment (a hundred dinars in Jami, two hundred dirhams in Sanai) to carry a message or letter to the village dogs, and the fox declines because the errand endangers his life, judging the wage worthless if it costs him his life. The two treatments then diverge in their morals. Jami draws a worldly-prudential lesson: do not debase yourself before an enemy, and do not risk your life, for the sake of wealth or rank, since true generosity cannot be hoped for from a base patron. Sanai redirects the same scene toward theology, warning that to feel secure from God's decree is itself a grave sin. Setting the two side by side shows how a single shared didactic image is steered toward ethical prudence in one poet and religious humility in the other, and helps learners distinguish borrowed narrative material from an author's own moral emphasis.