In Farid al-Din Attar's Elahi-Nameh, the tale of Ghazali and the heretic explores the Sufi concept of absolute trust in divine providence (tawakkul). When Ghazali shuts himself in out of fear of assassination by a heretic, the master Bushehdi admonishes him, highlighting that since human creation was entirely designed and executed by the Divine without human consultation, one's life and death remain solely under God's domain. The allegory emphasizes that fear of earthly threats reveals a spiritual deficiency and a failure to recognize the absolute sovereignty and destiny predetermined by God.