In Sanai's Hadiqat al-Haqiqah, the allegory of the blind men and the elephant serves as an epistemological critique of the limitations of sensory perception and rational imagination in grasping divine reality. When a king brings an elephant to a city inhabited entirely by the blind, several citizens attempt to discern its form by touch. Each person experiences only a single part (such as the ear, leg, or trunk) and mistakenly generalizes this partial contact as the complete truth of the creature's shape. Sanai uses this narrative to illustrate how human beings, blind to spiritual reality, rely on limited, subjective interpretation and speculative imagination to define the incomprehensible Divine, resulting in flawed and conflicting sectarian beliefs.