\n Both the husband and wife left their house and were walking on foot...

\n Both the husband and wife left their house and were walking on foot, which they were not used to, and felt exhausted with hunger and thirst. Soon they found a field full of melons in front of them. The former minister took 2 dirham from his wife, which were, by chance, left in her pocket, and bought a melon and wrapped it in a cloth, to eat it later under a tree shade across the farm.

\n Coincidentally, the day when the former minister got into trouble, the prince had also gone out hunting, but did not manage to return home before the night fell. \n The King was worried and distressed so he consulted all his ministers and discussed the matter with them.

The same official who was always backbiting about the former minister said, \u2018I think the prince has been taken away and killed by the grieved former minister.’ \n On hearing this king ordered to arrest the former local minister. The police found him near the melon field and arrested the former minister and his wife. They had not eaten the melon by that time and it was still wrapped up in the cloth at the time of their arrest.

\n They were brought in front of the king who noticed blood seeping out from the cloth in which the melon was wrapped. On removing the cloth, the prince\u2019s decapitated head was seen. \n The king started crying and ordered for them to be put in jail that night, and to behead both of them early in the morning. \n The former minister and his wife were sent to the royal jail. In the jail, the former minister asked his wife \u2018I cannot understand why we are in so much trouble?

What kind of sin have we committed for which we are getting punished?\u2019 \n His wife told him about the woodcutter\u2019s wife’s story, word by word, and said that she did not believe in this spiritual \u2018Nazar\u2019 and about Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws ‘s instructions in her dream.

\n Upon hearing this, the former minister told his wife that there can be no sin graver than doubting Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws\u00a0 \u2018s Divine powers and means of communications to help and assist his followers in desperation. \n They then decided to repent and ask for forgiveness as Mola -asws \u2019s miracles are always true and just. Thereafter, they cried all night and asked for absolution and pledged to offer the Niaz if released from the prison without charge.

\n Allah -azwj accepted their apologies and, early in the morning, the prince came back from hunting and greeted his father, the king. \n Salawat!