In Book 3 of Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, the confrontation intensifies as Pharaoh counters Moses by asserting his absolute worldly and bureaucratic dominance. Boasting that the 'register and bureau of rule' are under his command and that he possesses the adulation of the populace, Pharaoh dismisses Moses as a deluded self-admirer. In an attempt to publicly humiliate the prophet and expose what he perceives as ignorance, Pharaoh announces a grand plan to assemble all the sorcerers of the age. Acknowledging the logistical scale of this undertaking, the tyrant arrogantly demands a forty-day respite during the summer month of Tammuz. Rumi uses this exchange to illustrate the hubris of the ego, which mistakenly conflates political power and public consensus with ultimate truth, setting the stage for a dramatic contest between worldly illusion and divine reality.