In the Fifteenth Discourse of Jami's Haft Awrang, the poet admonishes those whose old age has dawned (the 'dawn of old age' rising from the 'night of youth') yet who remain spiritually heedless, having caught no 'breeze of awareness.' Jami renders the body's decline as a chain of warning signs: the body melts faster than a candle, the flame of age rises from the head, and white hair sifts down like camphor. The cooling of that camphor over the once-warm heart dampens the appetite for sleep and food; the whitening hair paints a dawn that is really the first light of the day of death. The bent back is likened to a strung bow and the dried skin to birch bark, while tears form the bowstring. The passage develops the discourse's central Sufi lesson: the visible ruin of the aging body is not merely loss but a divine summons to awaken before death arrives, a warning wasted on those who fail to perceive it.