In Section 95 of Jami's Haft Awrang, a king's favored courtier passes a field and finds a sage by a stream eating the scraps of herbs a herb-washer has left floating in the water. The courtier mocks this meager fare and urges the sage to enter the king's service, promising that rank and station would let him eat herbs beside roasted lamb. The sage rebukes him, teaching that the one who has come from high station has in truth fallen into a pit, for chasing worldly status is a form of servitude. By treading the path of contentment (qana'at), the sage is free of dependence on kings and has plucked out the tooth of greed from the feast of worldlings. The parable contrasts self-sufficient contentment with the bondage that worldly ambition demands.