In Jami's Haft Awrang, this section retells the celebrated Sufi anecdote of an arrowhead being extracted from the body of Ali (called Shir-e Khoda, the Lion of God) while he was wholly absorbed in prayer. Wounded at the Battle of Uhud, Ali felt no pain from the extraction because his soul had turned entirely toward contemplation of the Divine; he became aware of it only afterward, seeing his blood scattered like roses upon his prayer mat. Jami frames the drawing of the arrow through the imagery of the bow of spiritual struggle (mujahada) and the target of contemplation (mushahada), using the story to illustrate the ideal state of worship (khushu and hudur al-qalb) in which absorption in God renders the worshipper oblivious to bodily pain and the material world.