In the Twelfth Knot of Jami's Subhat al-Abrar (the fourth poem of the Haft Awrang), spiritual poverty (faqr) is presented as the most precious jewel (gawhar-i faqr) hidden within the talisman of the body. Jami develops the Sufi paradox of sawad al-wajh fi'l-darayn — the 'blackness of the face in both worlds' — the disgrace and self-effacement the seeker accepts as the badge of poverty. This outward blackness functions as a veil (burqa) that conceals the inner 'whiteness of the face' (bayaz-i chihra) of one's own true existence, realized in the two stations of Knowledge (ilm) and Essence (ayn). By embracing the patched cloak (khirqa) and the worn, yellowed face of poverty, the seeker is freed from the afflictions of hope and fear and from the wound of clinging to self-existence (hasti).