In Book Two of the Masnavi, Rumi uses the humorous story of Juhi and the mourning child as a profound allegory for spiritual destitution. As a child wails over his father's coffin, describing the grave as a dark, narrow space devoid of food, light, and comfort, Juhi remarks that the child is perfectly describing their own home. Rumi employs this anecdote to illustrate that a person living in heedlessness—devoid of spiritual illumination, divine nourishment, and inner peace—is functionally already residing in a 'grave'. The dark, empty house symbolizes the state of a soul trapped solely in the material world without the light of spiritual presence.