The prophetic tradition 'The world is a carcass and its seekers are dogs' is a recurring metaphor in Persian Sufi poetry, utilized early on by Sanai in the Hadiqat al-Haqiqah to directly contrast base material pursuits with spiritual aspirations. Later poets built upon this didactic foundation: Fariduddin Attar expanded the imagery in his Elahi Nameh into dynamic narratives involving successive animal scavengers to emphasize the degrading, competitive nature of worldly greed, while Rumi in the Masnavi used the carcass metaphor to philosophically contrast the lifelessness of the material world with the vibrant, conscious reality of the Hereafter. Comparing these texts reveals how a single prophetic tradition evolved from a straightforward moral warning into complex allegorical storytelling and ontological discourse.