In this tale from Jami's Haft Awrang, Jesus (the Spirit of God) is wandering on a journey when he comes upon a man asleep in the corner of a ruined monastery, one who has surrendered all his outward faculties to sleep: his eyes shut to beholding wonders, his ears closed to hearing subtle truths, and his eloquent tongue silenced like a speaking parrot caged in the narrow cage of the mouth. Jesus rouses him, urging him to rise from his low rung, to open his eye, ear, and tongue, and to renew the remembrance of God in his heart, for the page of the world is God's own book, whose every letter, read one by one, discloses wondrous secrets deserving of praise. The sleeper answers with an excuse for his slumber that Jesus finds acceptable. The allegory dramatizes the Sufi paradox that outward sleep may veil an inwardly awakened heart, so that one who is truly detached and present to God rests in a state that even the reproach of a prophet cannot fault.