In Section 2 of Jami's Baharestan, the endurance of sovereignty is grounded in justice rather than in religious creed. The passage recalls that the Persian kings (the Magians and fire-worshippers) held world rule for five thousand years because they treated their subjects justly and shunned oppression, and it cites the tradition that God commanded David to forbid his people from cursing the kings of Persia, since through their justice they made the world prosperous so that God's servants could dwell in it. The closing verse states the claim at its strongest: what preserves the order of the realm is justice, not disbelief or faith, and the just rule of an irreligious king is better for the world than the tyranny of a pious one. The section thus subordinates confessional identity to ethical governance as the true basis of legitimate and lasting kingship.