In this tale from Jami's Haft Awrang, a captured rogue (عیار) endures a public flogging by the sheriff (شحنه) until his body is beaten black, yet not a single sigh of pain escapes him. Afterward he spits out a silver dirham he had been clenching between his teeth, shattered to pieces by the force of his silent endurance, while the 'dinar of his patience' emerges whole. Questioned about this, he explains that a beloved (a 'moon') was present in the assembly, and shame before that beloved made him hide his anguish and even smile through the ordeal. The allegory teaches that the presence of the beloved transforms suffering: love, and the shame of appearing weak before the beloved, supply the strength for perfect patience (صبر) and composed steadfastness under pain.