In Section 44 of Jami's Haft Awrang (Subchain 2), the poet relates a story about the great Sufi master Ibn Arabi to illustrate the concept of absolute, unspecified divine love ('ishq-i mutlaq):

• Formless Devotion: The speaker experiences an overwhelming and consuming passion (where 'out of my existence rose smoke') without a specific, defined, or named earthly beloved.
• The Divine Pull (jadhba): This highlights the Sufi understanding of divine attraction, where the soul is drawn directly by God's essence before it can conceptualize or name the object of its devotion.
• Transcending Manifestation: By having no designated focus in the physical world, the lover's focus is preserved purely for the absolute, unmanifested Divine, avoiding the trap of attachment to finite forms.