In this section of Jami's Yusuf u Zulaykha, Bazigha — a fabulously wealthy and beautiful woman of the vanished people of Ad — falls in love with Joseph without ever having seen him, moved only by reports of his beauty. Jami opens the tale by insisting that love need not be born of sight: beauty's splendor can enter through the road of the ear (درآید جلوه حسن از ره گوش), so that a go-between's mere description makes one a lover of the absent (عاشق غایبانه). This unseen love then becomes the vehicle of a spiritual ascent: when Bazigha at last beholds Joseph, his created beauty is a mirror in which she perceives the Beauty of the Real (حقیقت), and she passes from metaphorical love (عشق مجازی) to true, divine love (عشق حقیقی). The episode dramatizes the Sufi doctrine that created beauty is a bridge to the uncreated — al-majaz qantarat al-haqiqa, the metaphor is the bridge to the Truth.