In this prose tale from Jami's Baharestan, a dervish falls hopelessly in love with a cruel, indifferent beloved who never returns his gaze. Well-meaning advisers urge him to abandon a beloved who keeps company only with the dissolute and rejects the pious and the faithful, arguing that such a beloved suits only someone of the same kind. The dervish laughs and refuses, declaring that the pain of love is his very portion from the beloved. He likens his devotion to the gathering of roses: the thorn-bearer carries away only thorns, while the seeker of the rose gathers the rose. The story crystallizes the Sufi ideal that a true lover embraces suffering, rejection, and social disapproval as the substance of love itself, prizing the beloved's beauty above any hope of reciprocated tenderness.