In the seventh garden of the Baharestan, Jami closes his survey of Persian poets with his contemporary, friend, and patron Amir Ali Shir Nava'i. Rather than simply ranking Nava'i among the poets, Jami argues that his true rank — measured by his nearness to a powerful king and by his inherited and acquired moral and intellectual virtues — stands higher than any praise of his verse could reach. Jami reads Nava'i's willingness to count himself among the poets as an act of humility and self-effacement, which in turn frees others to place him within their ranks. He concludes that wherever this group is gathered Nava'i is its head (sar), and whenever their names are recorded he is the first entry (sar-daftar). The passage exemplifies the tazkira convention of honoring a living patron through the claim that ordinary literary praise is inadequate to his station.