A story told of how a shepherd, a simple shepherd, was appointed by the Shah of Iran to be the prime minister of that country.

The Shah appointed him simply because of one characteristic, and that is his faithfulness.

And of course, as natural, and you can imagine the other cabinet members were indignant.

They were angry.

They felt they're the ones who come from the upper class.

They're the ones who have received the high education.

They are the ones who are refined and sophisticated. They are the ones

who are master politicians. They are the ones who should be appointed to that position,

at least one of them. And out of jealousy and out of envy, they conspired to bring some sort of accusation against the king's own choice.

So they watched his movements. They watched the prime minister very closely. They watched his

coming and they watched his going and they put him under a microscope. But they found nothing objectionable,

except for one thing.

They noticed that one day a week,

he goes into a small room in the palace,

that he kept locked all the time,

and that he goes in there for one hour every week they said aha we caught him red-handed

we know he must be there in that small room seeing all the precious possessions the treasures

that he has stolen from the king and they brought the accusations to the king and the king doubted their accusations

but nonetheless he gives them permission to break in

and search that small room that locked room

and to their utter amazement as they looked in that small room

they only found a small bundle that contained a dilapidated pair of shoes and a robe.

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