At the top, Rūmī, in the mausoleum of his father, Bahā˒ al-Dīn, reads from a Qur˒an on a wooden stand. The tomb itself is covered in red cloth. In the scene below, a butcher pursues an escaped bull that has sought refuge at the feet of Rūmī, who, along with four students, has just left his father's tomb. Since the bull asked for Rūmī's protection, he asked the butchers to set it free; they comply, and the bull was never seen again. The moral of the story is that those who follow and take refuge with men of God will escape the butchers or demons of hell.
This miniature is part of a sixteenth-century manuscript account of the life and miracles of the Persian poet and mystic known as Rūmī. It is a Turkish translation of an abridged version of the original fourteenth-century Persian account by the dervish known as Aflākī.