This allegory from Attar's Manteq al-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds) tells the story of a naked madman who asks God for a cloak. A heavenly voice tells him to wait in the warm sun. After complaining, he is told to wait ten days, after which he receives a tattered cloak made of hundreds of patches. The madman then audaciously jokes that God must have burned all the fine clothes in His treasury to piece together such a ragged garment. The story illustrates the archetype of the 'wise fool' (divaneh) in Sufi literature, who possesses a pure, unmediated, and overly familiar relationship with the Divine, allowing him to speak to God with a bold intimacy and humor that ordinary believers would not dare use.