In this section of Attar's Asrar Nameh, a profound teaching is attributed to the 'sea of light' buried in Kharaqan, a reference to the great Sufi master Sheikh Abul Hassan Kharaqani. The passage explores the true nature of Faqr (spiritual poverty). It describes the perfect 'faqir' as one whose heart is blackened in their poverty, alluding to the famous Sufi maxim that 'poverty is blackness of the face in both worlds' (al-faqr sawad al-wajh fi al-darayn). In this context, blackness represents the ultimate stage of spiritual poverty, meaning the complete annihilation of the ego and detachment from all worldly and otherworldly desires, leaving nothing but the Divine.