In the Second Knot of Jami's Haft Awrang, speech (sokhan) is celebrated as the noblest pearl of the oyster of humanity and the most delicate ornament of intimacy. Jami argues that true value comes from the word rather than from gold: the gold coin itself gained currency only through speech, and there are locks in the palace of the two doors that no golden key can open. He traces speech to a sacred origin, calling it the sound of Gabriel's wing, life-giving like the breath of Israfil, descended from the highest throne to earth for the sake of the pure. This concept frames human language as a generative, revelatory faculty rather than a mere tool of communication, preparing learners for the Third Knot's narrower praise of poetic, measured speech.