The story of the ring and the pendant-2

As more and more time passed Huarez came to be known as a healer and a preacher of love and harmony. However he never went back to his home town which he felt was no longer his own. The situation too in the country had deteriorated. The constant wars under the present ruler and his ambitions of making his capital the best in the region led to a severe financial crisis.The peaceful protests for food, clothes, shelter, reforms etc turned violent with mobs attacking all governmental properties and  houses of the rich. The army which had been armed and bred to fight against enemies now was turned towards its own people. This led to many officers and ordinary soldiers deserting the army to join with the protest movements. 

One day when Shirin and a few other noble ladies were playing cards at the ladies club, a mob of 70 men surrounded the house and started torching it. When they realised that the residents were all ladies they went in and raped and killed them. Not a single one survived.

When Alahgehra heard of this treacherous and heinous act he went back to the city and killed everyone whom he thought was involved including the nephew of the Governor who was the owner of the club. This news caused panic among all residents of the city. They began to term Alahgehra as the devil. However when he realised his crime he felt very sorry. But now where ever he went people just ran away from him. Even his best friends deserted him fearing that they would be targeted by the mobs.

The governor on his part persuaded the king to intervene and banish Alahgehra. When Alahgehra heard this news he broke. He could not come to terms with the fact that he had killed so many people or with the fact that the lands and the king whom he had served so diligently had now thrown him out. He re-called how many times he had saved his comrades on the battlefield and how many times he had single handed won battles and changed the course of wars. This questioning and counter questioning drove him mad. The next day he was put in a cage, taken to the border and thrown in the surrounding forests. They say nobody ever saw him again.

When Huarez came to know about the incidents happening in his city and that his beloved Shirin was dead, he rushed back to his home. There he took Shirin’s two surviving boys and calmed the residents. He met the governor who thanked him for coming to the rescue of the town. Huarez then took control of matters in his own hands. He persuaded the governor to make proper rationing of goods and use money only to procure goods from outside. Then he lectured the people on tolerance and asked them to disband their armed gangs and their routine attacks on governmental properties. After a month of lecturing, calming and preaching about love and tolerance order returned to the city.

The king ordered the same principles which restored calmness in Huarez’s home town be followed everywhere in the country. Soon the country was saved from a brutal uprising. However Huarez felt bad that he could not come early to save his favourite Shirin or his fellow countrymen. Seeking these answers he went on a pilgrimage. There the prophets did not bless him. Instead they hugged him saying that prophets do not bless each other. Huarez however pressed his questions to the holy men, who only responded that it was always in the bearer of the ring and the pendant. They advised Huarez to bring up the children of Shirin as if they were his own.

24 years later in the year of the bog Huarez died. He left behing a kingdom which prospered under his set up 30 guidance principles which every ruler, governor and administrator would have to follow. His sermons have been bound in a book which every citizen of the land and even abroad follow. And his sons grew up-one became a medicine man who could heal any wound and another a great teacher of arts.