In this Baharestan anecdote, Shaykh Abu al-Abbas Qassab watches a dervish obsessively unpick and re-sew every crooked seam of his khirqa (the patched Sufi robe) and pronounces, 'That is your idol.' The accompanying verse draws the moral distinction sharply: when the stitching is driven by sincere poverty (فقر), the mending of the khirqa is خوش کاری, good work; but when it is driven by the ego's craving for a flawless outward appearance (جنبش طبع), every stitch and thread becomes a بت (idol) and a زنار (the girdle of the unbeliever). The passage teaches that meticulous devotion to the external form of Sufi discipline can itself become a hidden form of self-worship, inverting the renunciation that the khirqa is meant to signify. It abstracts a recurring critique in Persian Sufi literature: that formalism and attachment to appearances corrupt piety from within.