In this passage from Jami's Baharestan, the poet distinguishes between blessings that perish at death and those that endure eternally. Any gift or comfort that death can take away is not, in the reckoning of the wise, counted as a true blessing. Even the longest earthly life ends: Noah lived nearly a thousand years, yet has now been dead for millennia, so the mere length of a life yields no lasting profit. Genuine worth belongs only to that which grants the soul everlasting joy and lies beyond the reach of decay, in contrast to silver and gold, which merely remain like a stone left upon one's grave. The teaching reframes worldly wealth and longevity as spiritually empty compared with imperishable, otherworldly good.