In this anecdote from Jami's Baharestan, a generous man is asked whether, in all that he gives to the needy and pours out upon beggars, he finds within himself any inward arrogance (رعونت) or a sense of placing the poor under obligation (منت). He answers with the image of the ladle (کفلیز) in the cook's hand: although the cook serves the food and the food passes through the ladle, the ladle never imagines itself to be the giver. In the same way the generous person is only an instrument through which God's sustenance (روزی) flows onward to its recipients; the true Provider is God (روزی‌ده خداست), while the giver is merely the cup and ladle of the pot of provision. The concept distills the Sufi-ethical ideal of jood (open-handed generosity): true giving is emptied of self-regard and of any claim to have obligated the poor, because the giver is a vessel, not the source, of bounty.