In Book 3 of Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, witnessing the impending doom of a ship in a storm, the mystic Daquqi is overcome with profound compassion and pleads for divine mercy upon the passengers. Rumi uses this pivotal moment to elucidate the Sufi concept of the 'prayer of the selfless.' When a spiritually realized saint like Daquqi achieves a state of absolute annihilation (fana) in the Divine, his ego is entirely erased, meaning the prayer that flows from his lips is fundamentally God's own speech. Because God is both the petitioner and the responder, the prayer is instantly answered, and the ship is miraculously saved. However, Rumi highlights human ignorance through the metaphor of a hunted fox. Just as a fleeing fox is saved by its swift feet but mistakenly credits its wagging tail, the worldly passengers attribute their salvation to their own efforts and cunning, entirely unaware of the invisible, intercessory grace of the saint that truly rescued them.