This section of Attar's Asrar Nameh recounts the classic fable of a fox that falls into a well and is subsequently discovered by an old wolf. When the wolf offers assistance, the cunning fox tricks the wolf into sitting in the well's other bucket. As the heavier wolf descends into the well, the fox is hoisted up and escapes. In Sufi literature, such animal fables frequently serve as allegories for the ego (nafs) and the deceptions of the material world, illustrating how easily one can be trapped by another's cunning or by one's own base desires.