In this anecdote from Jami's Baharestan, Khwaja Baha al-Din Naqshband is asked how far his spiritual chain (silsila) reaches, and he answers that 'from a chain one reaches nowhere.' The attached quatrain broadens this into a critique of the dervish's outward emblems: the patched cloak (dalq), the staff, and the prayer-beads (subha) yield no sincerity or purity, but only the scent of hypocrisy and ostentation (riya). The teaching redirects the seeker away from institutional pedigree and ritual paraphernalia toward inner authenticity, arguing that spiritual attainment is neither inherited through a lineage of masters nor demonstrated by external props.