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When the idol worshiping villagers saw the captives they rushed up
and surrounded them then 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 prison, "Maybe something good