In Book 2 of Jalaluddin Rumi's Masnavi, the tale of the bankrupt prisoner progresses as the judge orders the man to be publicly paraded throughout the city to definitively establish his insolvency. To carry out this public shaming, court officials commandeer a camel belonging to a poor firewood seller. The bankrupt man is paraded upon the beast from morning until evening, trailed by the grieving camel owner, while loud-voiced heralds proclaim his penniless and fraudulent state to ensure no one trades with him. Rumi seamlessly weaves this narrative event into a theological allegory: just as the judge protects the townspeople by broadcasting the man's insolvency, God acts as a herald through the Qur'an to declare the spiritual bankruptcy of the Devil (Iblis). Believers are thus warned against forming any partnerships with him, as he is a deceitful entity from whom no profit can be gained.