In Section 64 of Jami's Haft Awrang, the Nineteenth Knot on Love, the poet frames ishq (love) as the fundamental animating force of all existence.

Love as the Source of Life

The poem declares that a heart without love is a body without a soul (دل بی عشق تن بی جان است) and that the jewel of life and the treasure of permanence must be sought from love alone. Whoever is not made alive by love is counted among the dead.

Cosmic Love

Love is presented as the cause of the heavens' restlessness and the sun's ardent motion, echoing the Sufi doctrine that divine love sets the whole cosmos in movement.

The Alchemy of Love

Love is likened to an alchemist (aksir-gar) that transmutes base copper into gold; the pallor of lovers is offered as the golden proof of love's transforming power. Together these motifs cast love as both the origin of the world and the means of the soul's transformation and immortality.