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Justice as the Foundation of a Sovereign's Prosperity and Enduring Good Name in Jami's Thirty-Fifth Knot

In the Thirty-Fifth Knot of the Silsilat al-Dhahab, Jami frames well-wishing for sovereigns around the claim that a ruler's justice is God-given and forms the very pillar of the throne and the capital (سرمایه) of prosperity, while oppression is only the ornament of ruin. A king not blessed with justice becomes the agent of his own loss. Jami then links justice to the fate of a ruler's reputation: worldly splendor is transient — like Jamshid, whose feast and cup vanished leaving only a name behind — so what truly endures after a sovereign is his name (نام). An unjust ruler dies twice, once in body and again in the wreckage of a bad name, whereas the just ruler earns an enduring good name that serves as a second survival (بقای دوم) beyond annihilation.

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