In Fariduddin Attar's Mosibat Nameh, the allegory of the madman and the commoner running to join a funeral prayer highlights the spiritual blindness of worldly pursuits. When a madman sees a commoner rushing to attend a funeral prayer, he mockingly warns him that his eagerness is misplaced. The madman compares the material world to a decaying corpse ('murdar') and worldly people to rabid dogs fighting over it. Through the archetype of the 'wise madman' ('deevaneh'), Attar criticizes those who remain spiritually dead and consumed by worldly desires while superficially participating in religious rituals.