In this allegorical tale from Farid al-Din Attar's Elahi Nameh, the Prophet Muhammad during his Night of Ascension (Mi'raj) encounters weeping angels who grieve for a specific group of his community. These individuals suffer from spiritual delusion (pendar), believing they are active and engaged in spiritual work when they are actually unproductive and detached from reality. Attar uses this narrative to warn seekers against the perils of self-deception, superficial worship, and wasting one's life in complacency and false assumptions.