In this tale from Jami's Haft Awrang, Dhul-Nun al-Misri exhorts Bayazid Bastami to wake up from his sleep, warning him that the spiritual caravan is passing. Bayazid responds by defending his slumber, explaining that for a true seeker who has completely annihilated his ego and spent his life in sleepless spiritual discipline, physical sleep is actually a state of profound inner wakefulness and divine communion (known as 'the sleep of the wakeful' or khwab-e bidaran). This allegory highlights the Sufi distinction between outward practices of ascetic vigilance (vigils) and the inward, effortless state of continuous divine presence experienced by highly advanced mystics, where even physical rest becomes an act of contemplation.