In Jami's Kheradnama-ye Eskandari (the seventh poem of the Haft Awrang), the tale of Alexander's testament dramatizes the futility of worldly power and possessions. As death approaches, Alexander instructs his companions to leave his hand outside the coffin so that every man and woman may see it empty, and to proclaim in every land that even the conqueror of the world departs with nothing in his grasp. The allegory delivers a Sufi lesson on the transience of material dominion and wealth, urging the soul to attend to the eternal rather than to worldly ambition.