This allegory from Jami's Haft Awrang tells of a world-renouncing disciple who, barely seated in his master's company, abruptly rises to search the streets and alleys for something precious he has forgotten. The alert master (pir) rebukes his haste, teaching that in both worlds there is only one thing that is unworthy of being forgotten: God, the qibla of both speech and silence. Even if a seeker held all the horizons of creation in his embrace, forgetting the Divine would render the summit of his awareness mere heedlessness and the sum of his days fruitless. The story illustrates the Sufi theme that remembrance of God (dhikr) is the sole essential, beside which the loss of every other thing is inconsequential, while its loss makes all other attainment worthless.