Shortly after these events, the grand-vizir died, and his post was given to the dervish. But he did not hold it for long, for the Sultan fell a victim to an attack of illness, and as he had no sons, the soldiers and priests declared the dervish heir to the throne, to the great joy of all the people.
One day, when the dervish, who had now become Sultan, was making a royal progress with his court, he perceived the envious man standing in the crowd.
"But it would be quite simple for this holy chief of the dervishes to cure her if he only knew!
The dervishes, who could not imagine what had become of him, were enchanted at his reappearance.
The sun had not long risen before the Sultan, who was anxious to leave nothing undone that might deliver the princess, arrived with a large suite at the gate of the monastery, and was received by the dervishes with profound respect.
The
dervishes were protesting in front of the 102nd Police Station for the release of Nematollah Riahi, a fellow
dervish who had been arrested outside the Tehran-based home of the Gonabadi Order's spiritual leader, Nur-Ali Tabandeh.
The content of workshop included the story of a wandering
dervish Shams Tabriz who arrived in a town where the natives didn't trust strangers.The
dervish calmly responds to the harsh attitudes and takes them to the depth of knowing their inner self by following the rules of spirituality and Sufism.