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When the idol worshiping villagers saw the captives they rushed up and
surrounded them and took them to their chieftain. The chieftain could not believe
his eyes when he saw all the supplies and animals of the caravan and ordered
that all of the captives should be sacrificed to their idols in thanksgiving for their
good luck!

One by one the ministers were sacrificed and now it was time for the 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