This allegory from Attar's 'Mosibat Nameh' features a 'wise madman' who enters the bazaar while pinching his nose to avoid the spiritual stench (شمغندی) of the worldly inhabitants. He explains that he only remains to witness the 'burning' and 'smoke' of their worldly desires. The tale illustrates the Sufi concept of the material world as a source of spiritual corruption and the mystic's necessary detachment and repulsion from social and commercial preoccupations.