This concept distills the central teaching of the tale: a person of keen spiritual insight, like Hasan al-Basri, can perceive and reclaim a point of wisdom even from a tyrant such as Hajjaj, in the very darkness of his oppression. Jami frames wisdom as the lost property of the discerning heart, echoing the maxim that wisdom is the believer's stray possession, to be picked up from the dust with the hand of courtesy wherever it is found. The lesson is that true discernment lies not in the worthiness of the source but in the perceiver's capacity to recognize, honor, and internalize wisdom amid heedlessness and injustice.