M1:1560 — بر شما کرد او سلام و داد خواست / وز شما چاره و ره ارشاد خواست

This couplet forms the core of the message the caged parrot sends with its owner to the free parrots of India. The message is not merely a social greeting; it is a formal and desperate appeal. The first half, with its call for dād (justice or redress), frames the parrot's captivity as a fundamental wrong that needs to be righted. This elevates the parrot's suffering from a personal misfortune to a matter of cosmic imbalance.

The second half specifies the help sought: a chārah (remedy, solution) and a rah-e ershād (path of guidance). This duality is crucial. The parrot seeks a practical way out of the cage, but also, and perhaps more importantly, spiritual counsel on how to find the right way forward while trapped. This introduces the central Sufi theme of the story: the soul, trapped in the 'cage' of the body and the material world, yearns not just for liberation but for guidance from those who are already spiritually free.