last3=Waghmar|first3=Burzine|title=The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture|publisher=Reaktion|year=2004|page=30}}.</ref>
Sufi teacher [[Inayat Khan]] gives the bestowed-kingship legend a spiritual dimension: "Its true meaning is that when a person's thoughts so evolve that they break all limitation, then he becomes as a king. It is the limitation of language that it can only describe the Most High as something like a king."<ref name="Mysticism of Music">{{citation|chapter-url=http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/II/II_8.htm|title=The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word|chapter=Abstract Sound|last=Khan|first=Inayat|year=1923|publisher=wahiduddin.net}}.</ref>
The Huma bird symbolizes unreachable highness in [[Turkish folk literature]].<ref name="hbv">{{Citation |url=http://www.hbvdergisi.gazi.edu.tr/index.php/TKHBVD/article/view/572/562 |author=Erdoğan Altınkaynak |title=Yer Altı Diyarının Kartalı |publisher=Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, 26, 135 – 163 (2003) |access-date=8 March 2014 |language=tr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308163058/http://www.hbvdergisi.gazi.edu.tr/index.php/TKHBVD/article/view/572/562 |archive-date=8 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some references to the creature also appear in [[Sindhi literature]], where – as in the [[Diwan (poetry)|diwan]] tradition – the creature is portrayed as bringing great fortune. In the ''[[Zafarnama (letter)|Zafarnama]]'' of [[Guru Gobind Singh]], a letter addressed to [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] refers to the Huma bird as a "mighty and auspicious bird".