The Sultan and The Vizier

A vizier had served his master for some thirty years and was known and admired for his loyalty, truthfulness and devotion to God. His honesty, however, had made him many enemies in the court, who spread stories of his duplicity and perfidy.

They worked on the Sultan day in and day out until he too came to distrust the innocent vizier and finally ordered the man who had served him so well to be put to death.