In Farid al-Din Attar's Elahi Nameh, the tale of Anushirvan the Just delivers a profound Sufi critique of worldly ambition and material accumulation. Attar uses the voice of the legendary just king to convey that honorable death in poverty is far superior to being sustained by the bread of base people. The narrative portrays the material world and those consumed by its affairs as inherently corrupt and transient, warning that wealth, status, and worldly success offer no benefit in one's final hours. Instead, only spiritual sincerity (ikhlas) remains of value. The poem concludes with a key Sufi paradox: everything considered a perfection (kamal) in the worldly realm acts as a spiritual detriment or burden (vabal) in the realm of faith.