In Section 42 of Jami's Haft Awrang (the Eleventh Discourse), the true mark of the Sufi is declared to be signlessness (bi-neshani): the way of the Sufi is non-existence (nisti), not name-seeking or the outward pretense of purity. Jami urges the seeker to become lost from arrogant selfhood and then even lost from that lostness. He develops the image of the reed (ney), which can only sing once it has been emptied of itself and has returned to its reed-bed of non-being; having crossed the desert of its own existence, it then scatters sweetness for its companions. The passage teaches that genuine Sufi life consists in self-emptying and self-sacrifice (jan-fashani) rather than in reputation or ritual display.