The Idiot and the Browsing Camel

AN IDIOT looked at a browsing camel. He said to it: ' Your appearance is awry. Why is this so?'
The camel replied: 'In judging the impression made, you are attributing a fault to that which shaped the form. Be aware of this! Do not consider my crooked appearance a fault.
'Get away from me, by the shortest route. My appearance is thus for function, for a reason. The bow needs the bentness as well as the straightness of the bowstring.
'Fool, begone! An ass's perception goes with an ass's nature.'
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Maulana Majdud , known as Hakim Sanai the Illuminated Reviving Sage of Ghazna, writes extensively in the unreliability of subjective impressions and conditioned judgments.
One of his sayings is: ' In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.'
This parable is from his 'Walled Garden of Truth'. which was written about 1130.