In this parable from Jami's Haft Awrang, a tyrannical king offers a madman any gift he might ask from the turning heavens — wealth and treasure, a spouse and palace, or even the crown of kingship. The madman laughs at the ruler's naive faith in the celestial sphere (falak), describing it as a bewildered, malicious vagrant that wars ceaselessly against the people of the heart. Its only craft, he says, is crookedness and the oppression of the upright: it strips the throne from a just ruler like Nowshirvan and bestows it on a hard-hearted tyrant. Through the 'wise fool' archetype, the tale inverts its own framing — the one called estranged from reason proves the true sage, while the king is the real fool — to expose the fragility of worldly power and the untrustworthiness of fate.