Both cities incarnate a similar universal dream.

Thus did she seclude herself from them, whereupon We sent to her Our Spirit and he became incarnate for her as a well proportioned human.

Then he went to Joseph and said to him Joseph, O truthfulness incarnate, tell the true meaning of the dream in which seven fat cows are devoured by seven lean ones and there are seven green ears of corn and seven others dry and withered so that I may return to the people and they may learn.