In Book 3 of Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, following Pharaoh's demand for a forty-day respite to assemble his sorcerers, Moses immediately refuses the request, asserting his position as an absolute servant of God's command. Moses explains that he possesses no independent authority to grant delays or calculate the worldly outcomes of their conflict. Unlike Pharaoh, who arrogantly plots for victory from a place of ego, Moses declares that personal triumph or defeat is entirely irrelevant to his spiritual duty. His sole responsibility is to earnestly contend with the tyrant until the divine decree arrives to separate the adversaries. Rumi uses this exchange to underscore the Sufi ideal of perfect submission, illustrating that the true spiritual seeker claims no personal agency or 'part in victory,' acting merely as a devoted, uncalculating instrument of the divine will.