In the fourteenth section of Jami's Silsilat al-Dhahab (from Haft Awrang), a group condemned by the tyrant Hajjaj try in vain to save themselves with gold and finally resign themselves to the sword. Only the last of them speaks. Rather than bribing or begging, he delivers a candid, balanced argument: he freely admits that he and his companions acted out of foolishness and sin, yet he reminds Hajjaj that abandoning mercy and kindness is itself a wrong on the ruler's part. This 'arrow of the tongue' — a well-measured appeal to justice and shared responsibility — reaches where treasure could not, dulling the sword of oppression and sparing his life. Jami uses the tale to show that honest, artfully reasoned speech can move even a hardened oppressor, and that the powerful are bound by the duty of mercy just as the guilty are answerable for their sins.