The young man was bestowed a high rank by Allah and became a saint. Miracles began to take place at his hands. Through his duas, the blind and lepers were cured.

News of this young man soon reached the king. The false claim of the king to divinity and his entire ruse was at risk. If the blind continued to be cured through the duas of the saint, this completely shattered the king’s claim to godhood. As a result, the king set out to kill the saint in any way possible.

He tried various things. He attempted to throw the saint from a mountain and drown him in the sea, but every attempt failed miserably. In the end, the saint himself said to the king, “If you wish to martyr me, then there is a way. Gather people in an open field, tie me to a date-palm tree, say بِسْمِ اللہِ رَبِّ الْغُلَام, and fire an arrow at me!”

The king was overjoyed to hear this. He arranged a huge gathering. The trunk of a date-palm tree was affixed in the middle of an open field. The saint was then tied to it. The king placed an arrow in his bow, pulled it back, and said بِسْمِ اللہِ رَبِّ الْغُلَام (“In the name of Allah, the Lord of this young man”). Saying this, he fired the arrow, which struck the saint in his head and martyred him.

When the people witnessed this, they realised the king who claimed to be divine had failed in all his attempts, and it was the name of the young man’s Lord which helped in the end. They understood that the king was not a god at all. Instead, they realised the true God is Allah, the Lord of that young man. They all recited the kalima and entered the true religion.

The king was outraged now, as his false claim of divinity had been exposed. Everybody left him and began believing in the one true God. In his rage, the king said ditches must be dug at the edges of the pathways and fires lit in them.