In this section of Jami's Subhat al-Abrar (part of the Haft Awrang), worldly rank and status (جاه, jah) is figured as a well (چاه, chah) into which the soul is plunged, exiled from the nearness of God. A powerful vizier processes amid dazzling pomp while onlookers marvel and ask who he is; a humble spinning woman answers that he is one banished from the sanctuary of divine proximity, deceived by the ornament of the fleeting world and left destitute beneath the turning wheel. Her whispered admonition strikes home in the vizier's receptive heart, so that the thread of grace passed from the spinner's hand becomes the lasso by which he is drawn up from the well of status. The tale teaches that worldly eminence is itself a spiritual snare, and that awakening and deliverance may arrive through humble, unexpected counsel when the heart is disposed to accept advice.