This concept captures the moral allegory of Jami's tale in the Khiradnama-yi Iskandari (Haft Awrang, Section 18). A village headman's son, his mind swollen with pride at his father's local eminence yet his heart empty of any sense of true majesty, travels with his father to the city expecting it to be a mere spectacle like his village. Confronted with the overwhelming pomp of the king's court -- a palace towering to the stars, Saturn-like figures serving as its doorkeepers, and the thunder of royal trumpets shaking earth and sky -- he recognizes how petty rural chieftaincy is beside real kingship, declaring that if this is the custom of lordship, their own rank is nothing but buffoonery. The tale allegorizes the relativity of worldly status, the folly of provincial vanity, and the humbling recognition of genuine greatness.