In the opening of Baharestan, Jami cites Junayd's saying that the tales of the masters are a troop from the troops of God in order to justify recounting the words and lives of the Sufi shaykhs. The claim is that narratives of the masters, firmly rooted in knowledge (ilm) and gnosis (marifat), function as a divine army: when they set out toward the kingdom of the heart, they rout the opponents that are the nafs (ego) and hava (desire). The accompanying verse frames the assault of ego and desire as the army of Satan, which only the troops of the guides' tales can withstand and break. This establishes the pedagogical rationale for hagiographic and didactic storytelling in the Sufi tradition — the excerpt's core teaching.