An interpretive concept drawn from the Baharestan anecdote in which Jahiz recounts being seized and dragged to a statue-caster's shop, only to discover that his own face had been chosen as the model for a commissioned likeness of Satan. The accompanying verse turns extreme physical ugliness into a vehicle of self-deprecating wit, asserting that no other face could serve to portray the devil's image. The passage belongs to the Baharestan's cycle of anecdotes on repartee about ugliness, where physical deformity becomes an occasion for humor and pointed rhetorical exchange rather than plain insult.