This story from Attar's Mosibat Nameh utilizes the conflict between a king seeking to make his grand palace perfectly symmetrical and an old woman refusing to sell her neighboring hut to illustrate the insatiable nature of worldly greed. The old woman's refusal serves as a moral correction to the king, highlighting that a ruler's greed cannot be satisfied even by the entire world, and emphasizing the spiritual value of contentment and respecting the rights of the poor over material power and architectural vanity.