In Section 17 of the Hadiqat al-Haqiqah, Sanai uses the debate between a squint-eyed (ahwal) son and his father to illustrate the nature of spiritual delusion and the inability of the spiritually blind to perceive their own ignorance. The son argues that he does not see multiplicity where unity exists, failing to realize his own defect. Sanai uses this metaphor to warn seekers against viewing the path of religion with a distorted, crooked perspective that mistakes unity for duality, similar to how Rumi later uses the squint-eyed metaphor to represent those who fail to comprehend divine oneness (tawhid).