In Section 17 of the second garden (rowze) of Jami's Baharestan, the poet invokes the saying of the sages that, just as the world becomes prosperous through justice ('adl), so it is laid to ruin through oppression (jur). Jami renders this contrast through a spatial-luminous metaphor: justice casts light across a thousand leagues (hazar farsang) from its own quarter, while oppression spreads darkness the same distance from its place, filling the world with gloom, bitterness of life, and constriction. The accompanying verse urges the ruler to strive for justice, whose radiance dawns like morning across a thousand leagues, and warns that the darkness of tyranny darkens and embitters the whole world. The passage frames justice and oppression as opposing forces whose luminous or shadowing influence extends far beyond their immediate point of origin.