In this tale from Jami's Haft Awrang, a wise and benevolent philosopher walking the seashore encounters a man drowning in grief over his poverty and misfortune. The philosopher casts the 'lasso of advice' to draw the sufferer out of the 'whirlpool of sorrow.' Rather than dismissing the man's pain, he invites him to reframe it through a thought experiment: to imagine that his lost sustenance was like a ship brimming with wealth that the sea shattered with a single wave. By picturing his poverty as an inevitable loss governed by fate, the grieving man is guided toward detachment from worldly possessions and acceptance of destiny. The allegory expresses the Sufi and philosophical ideal that reasoned counsel can heal the soul's grief, and that attachment to material fortune is the true root of sorrow, while inner release from it is liberation.