In Sanai's 'Hadiqat al-Haqiqah', the poem 'An Allegory on the States of the Departed of the Faithless World' (Section 7) uses a vivid personification of death to underscore the absolute inevitability of mortality and the transience of worldly power. Death is depicted as an active, speaking agent that levels all earthly hierarchies, declaring that both the ruler and the commoner are equally subject to physical decay. By describing how it digs graves for kings, strips the proud of their wealth and strength, and destroys whole dynasties, death exposes the ultimate vanity of earthly ambition and the fragile nature of political power in the face of eternal reality.