In the Eighth Discourse of Tuhfat al-Ahrar (part of Jami's Haft Awrang), Jami presents seclusion (uzlat) as a source of honor (izzat) rather than mere isolation. He grounds this in a mystical reading of the word عزلت: its letter 'ayn stands for ilm (knowledge) and its letter zay stands for zuhd (asceticism), so that seclusion stripped of knowledge collapses into zallat (error, a slipping), while seclusion stripped of asceticism becomes illat (a spiritual ailment).

The poem then offers practical counsel for the seeker: withdraw the skirt of one's company from the unworthy, bolt the doors of coming and going, stay closed-lipped like an unopened bud, refuse to broadcast one's radiance like the sun, and — like Jesus or a cave-dweller — dwell apart rather than seating oneself in every worthless gathering. Honorable seclusion is thus the disciplined union of inward knowledge and ascetic restraint, not a flight driven by mere aversion to people.