In this section of the Twelfth Discourse of the Haft Awrang, Jami condemns the scholar who raises the banner of learning yet casts it aside the moment action is required, dramatizing the Sufi ideal of 'علم بی عمل' (knowledge without deeds). He likens the boastful savant to a self-proclaimed alchemist whose purse, once opened, is empty of gold: the claim of mastery collapses the instant it is tested. Jami further depicts the indiscriminate hoarding of books, sound and unsound alike, as clods of clay heaped around the seeker, with every page becoming a veil ('حجاب') that walls the aspirant off from the true goal. The passage urges the learner to break through this barrier of self-satisfied erudition and disputation ('جدل') in favor of lived spiritual realization.