This concept extracts the central spiritual argument of Section 2 of Jami's Haft Awrang, in which the supplication is built on the weakness of old age and the confession of utter helplessness ('ajz).

1. Helplessness and Poverty (Faqr / 'Ajz): The poet declares he has no hand able to accomplish anything and no foot able to open a path, presenting himself as an old man 'without hand or foot' who can only beg for the outpouring (سحاب) of divine grace.
2. The Blackness of Youth: He laments that his youth passed with a black heart, stained by sin, while his hair was still dark.
3. From White Hair to Divine Light: As age has whitened his hair with the 'light of old age,' he pleads not to be abandoned in despair of God's light, asking that his heart, which had grown fond of blackness, receive a share of nur ala nur (light upon light).
4. Purification of the Heart: The governing petition is that God wash the layered blackness from his heart just as time has already washed t...