This fable stages a peacock (طاووس) and a crow (زاغ) meeting in a garden, where each notices the other's flaws and merits. The peacock claims that the crow's red feet, likened to red leather boots, rightfully belong to its own gold-brocaded plumage, insisting that at the moment of creation they must have donned each other's footwear by mistake. The crow rejects this, replying that any mix-up lies elsewhere among their garments. A tortoise (کشف), absorbed in meditation nearby, overhears the quarrel and raises its head to respond. The passage dramatizes the futility of comparing and envying outward appearance and the discontent that arises from questioning one's divinely apportioned form, setting the birds' vain dispute against the meditative detachment of the tortoise.