In the fifteenth section of Jami's Silsilat al-Dhahab (from Haft Awrang), the story of Ghazan Khan illustrates a fundamental principle of preventative justice and the slippery slope of tyranny. When a soldier takes a single bag of straw from a poor villager, the king orders a severe punishment. In response to his minister's objection that such a minor offense does not warrant severe discipline, Ghazan argues that unchecked minor injustices inevitably escalate: if a soldier is allowed to steal straw without consequence, he will soon demand barley, then wheat, and eventually threaten the lives and homes of the citizens. Jami uses this narrative to emphasize that rulers must maintain absolute zero-tolerance for even the smallest acts of oppression to safeguard the stability of the entire realm.