In this section of Jami's Haft Awrang (from Selselat al-Dhahab), the tale of the Caliph of Baghdad's handmaiden who falls in love with his slave and throws herself into the Tigris River serves as a profound allegory for absolute, self-sacrificing love and the Sufi concept of spiritual annihilation (fana). Denied union by worldly obstacles and overwhelmed by the fire of separation (firaq), the handmaiden's act of casting herself into the river symbolizes the lover's ultimate surrender and the dissolution of the individual ego in the infinite ocean of Divine Love. Jami uses this narrative to illustrate how authentic, consuming love transcends all self-preservation, demonstrating that the ultimate realization of love lies in the complete obliteration of the self.