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Sultan to be sacrificed. They were just about to sacrifice the Sultan
when they noticed one of his fingers was missing, and the rules of the
tribe were that nothing imperfect should be sacrificed to their gods,
and so the Sultan was set free. It was then that the Sultan realized
what Omar had told him was in fact true and that some good had
come from his loosing his finger!

All the way home the Sultan praised and thanked Allah for saving him
because of his missing finger, he felt that he had been very ungrateful
to Allah all these years and also felt very sorry for sending Omar to
prison. But one thing still puzzled him, it was that he had heard Omar
say as the guards took him away to prison, "Maybe something good
will come because of it!"

At last the Sultan reached his palace, and the first thing he did was to
go to the palace mosque and offer a prayer in thanksgiving for his
safe return. Then he asked to be taken to Omar. Omar was happy to
see his friend once again and to hear how the Sultan's severed finger
had saved him from being sacrificed. The Sultan immediately ordered