In this anecdote from Jami's Haft Awrang, a devoted friend travels from Canaan to Egypt and, finding no ware worthy of Joseph, presents him with a spotless mirror so that Joseph may behold his own beautiful face. The tale functions as a Sufi allegory: absolute Beauty can be fittingly honored only by a pure mirror in which it contemplates itself. The dust-free mirror stands for the purified heart, and the reflected countenance for divine beauty made manifest through creation, so that nothing external is worthy of the Beloved except the very means of witnessing His own perfection. This reading parallels, in Jami's idiom, the mirror allegories of Attar and Rumi.