In this tale from Attar's Mosibat Nameh, Imam Ali (referred to as Haider) corrects a man who excessively condemns the world. Ali explains that the world itself is not inherently evil; rather, evil stems from a lack of wisdom. He employs the well-known Islamic metaphor of the world as a tillage or farmland for the hereafter. Worldly life is presented as an essential opportunity where good deeds and spiritual efforts are sown today to be harvested in the afterlife, emphasizing that one should not become preoccupied with worldly matters for their own sake, but rather use them as a necessary provision for spiritual salvation.