In this tale from Jami's Haft Awrang, a handsome youth dresses in his finest festival garments, seeks out a mirror, and becomes so entranced by his own beauty that he proclaims himself a prince without equal from the moon to the fish. This intoxicated self-regard is immediately punished when he is struck down by a poison-tipped arrow. The narrative functions as a moral-mystical allegory for self-admiration and conceit (khodbini and 'ujb): the mirror represents the ego's fixation on the illusory self, and the youth's declaration of his own supremacy exemplifies the pride that severs the seeker from truth. The sudden, fatal arrow dramatizes how vanity carries within it the seed of its own destruction, teaching that attachment to outward beauty and self-love is a spiritual poison that brings the proud low.