This concept captures the ethical teaching of Jami's prose anecdote in Baharestan Section 18. A dervish of strong will (قوی همت) enjoyed a warm companionship with a powerful king, but once he sensed that the king had begun to perceive his frequent visits as a burden, he withdrew entirely from the royal court. Meeting the king later by chance, he explained that refraining from asking preserves one's dignity better than enduring the king's weariness at one's coming — hence the closing verse: better to be asked 'why did you not come' than to be asked 'why did you come.' The passage teaches that spiritual self-sufficiency and the preservation of honor outweigh the material benefits of proximity to worldly power; true himmat (aspiration) expresses itself as freedom from need rather than as the pursuit of favor.