This tale from Jami's Baharestan depicts a single beautiful figure who draws crowds of dervishes to itself, each swarming toward it like flies to sugar. Because every lover claims the beloved exclusively and strives to appear alone worthy in the beloved's eyes, their shared devotion curdles into jealousy, dispute, and open strife. Jami's verses compare the contending lovers to circumambulators of the Kaaba whose very eagerness drives them to jostle and clash. The passage illustrates how possessive, exclusivist love for one object of devotion breeds conflict among those who ought to be united by it — a Sufi reflection on contested claims of nearness and the collapse of fellowship into rivalry.