In this tale from Attar's 'Elahi Nameh', a king angrily banishes a dervish from his realm. The dervish responds by taking up residence in a graveyard. When the king demands to know why the dervish has not left his territory, the dervish explains that the graveyard is the first station of the afterlife (Qiyamat) and therefore falls outside the king's earthly jurisdiction. Through this narrative, Attar illustrates the transient and geographically limited nature of worldly power. The graveyard serves as a powerful metaphor for the threshold between the temporal world and the eternal realm, demonstrating that secular authority ends at death and that true, absolute sovereignty belongs only to the divine.