Submission to a higher authority

5TH MAY, 2022.

81ST ARTICLE IN ALL.   

Many years ago, there lived a king. He was a great and powerful King. He was a militant and he had fought and won many battles, even as a young boy. His courage and bravery were part of the qualities that made the people to crown him as their King. He was not from the royal family. After he was enthroned, he fought and overcame all the cities surrounding him and had peace.

There was a particular war he ought to follow his servants to fight together but since he had trained his servants very well, he decided to stay at home and relax. The houses that were built for Kings at that time was very tall and the bathroom people use then was the one that clothes would be tied around some wood while the roof will be opened. The king was moving around his house when he saw a beautiful married woman taking her bath and lusted after her. He told his other servants who did not go to war to search for the woman and bring her to him. He slept with her and she became pregnant.

In order to cover up his abomination, he sent for the husband to come back home from the war and go home to his wife without any tangible reason. This woman's husband was patriotic and he slept at the King's gate, refusing to go home. He said he could not go home when his mates were fighting on the battle Field. When the king was informed that he didn't go home, he called him and gave him a letter to give to the captain of the army. In the letter, it was written that this man should be killed and he truthfully delivered it to the captain without knowing the content. This man eventually died in the battle and the king took the woman to be his third wife.

Some years after the woman gave birth to a baby boy, a prophet went to the king and told the king the story of a rich man who had a very large cattle and there was another poor man who had only one ewe Lamb. One day this rich man had a visitor. Instead of him to kill one of his fat cows, he took the poor man's lamb and killed it. This king said that the rich man deserved to die. The prophet said that the king represents the rich man and that God was unhappy with him for committing adultery with another man's wife and killing the husband. The prophet said he(the king) would die. But the king quickly pleaded for forgiveness.

The prophet then said that the king would not die but the boy that was born would die. The king began to fast and pray from that day. The child eventually feel sick. The servants told the King to rise up and eat but he refused. After some days, the child died. The king then rose up, took his bath and ate his food. When the servants asked him why he did that, he said, he was playing perhaps God would have mercy on him and not allow the boy to die. But since the boy eventually died, the king admitted that he accepted fate submitted to a higher authority, as that would be the punishment for his sins.

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