In this allegory from Attar's Mosibat-Nameh, the Sufi master Abu Sa'id Abul-Khayr encounters a privy and listens to the spiritual complaint of the excrement. The waste explains that it was once a pure divine blessing with color, fragrance, and delicious taste, sought after by everyone. However, a single moment of contact or consumption by humans transformed it into a foul impurity. The parable serves as a critique of the human ego (nafs), demonstrating how the lower self corrupts divine gifts and turns spiritual purity into base material waste.