In this tale from Jami's Haft Awrang, King Nushirvan, whose justice has reached perfection, feigns illness and asks that an old brick be brought to him from a ruin as a prescribed remedy. Searchers scour village by village and city by city but can find no ruined palace or fallen archway anywhere in the realm. The absence of any ruin becomes proof that his justice has rebuilt the entire land, making a single ruin as rare as buried treasure and leaving the owl (traditionally the dweller of desolation) homeless. The concept illustrates the Persian ethical ideal that royal justice is a form of architecture: sustained fairness produces universal prosperity, while ruins are read as the physical signature of tyranny and neglect.