Rumi discusses how craftsmen seek out emptiness or lack to practice their skills. Workers are drawn to hints of emptiness that they can then fill. Similarly, the soul should not fear emptiness but see it as containing what is needed. He tells a story of a Hindu boy adopted by King Mahmud who came to no longer fear the emptiness he was brought to but instead found delight in it. Rumi concludes that people wrongly fear emptiness and changing when they should embrace both.