This concept extracts the moral-mystical lesson of Jami's tale in which a chivalrous man (javanmard), on learning that smallpox has marred the once-radiant face of his beloved, feigns permanent blindness so that she will never suspect he perceives her disfigurement. His self-inflicted pretense of losing his sight is an emblem of futuwwat (spiritual chivalry) and of true love that shields the beloved from shame: genuine devotion overlooks and covers the beloved's outward defect rather than exposing it. In the Sufi register, the human beloved figures the Divine, and the lover's willed blindness models the annihilation of self-regarding perception so that only unconditional attachment remains. The tale thus contrasts a love that guards the beloved's honor with lesser affections that see and dwell on faults.