In the kingdom of Vidagan, there was a kind and wise king. All the citizens of the kingdom were happy, but the king was always worried and sad, for a devilish snake had entered his son the prince’s body. Neither medicine nor magic could save the prince or heal him from the devilish snake.
When the prince grew up and became a young man, he thought that his father felt sadness and worry because of him. One day, the prince decided to leave the palace. He wandered through the kingdom and went to another kingdom. There, he found an abandoned temple and decided to live inside it. He would beg for his food.
The king of the other kingdom was harsh, but his daughter the princess was kind and beautiful. The king also didn’t feel happiness with his daughter, as the princess always criticized the bad deeds her father the king did. She always made the king feel that all his deeds were useless and bad.
The king thought of a way to punish his daughter and decided to punish her by marrying her to a beggar. He thought that in this way, the princess would know what hard work was and why he acted harshly. After several days, the prince beggar came to take some food from the palace. At that time, the king decided to force him to marry the princess. Indeed, the prince beggar married the beautiful princess, and they went to live in the ruined temple.
On the way from the palace to the temple, the prince and princess stopped to rest. The princess began moving everywhere looking for food, while her husband the prince went to sleep. When the princess returned to the temple, she was shocked and terrified to see a snake sitting in her husband the prince’s mouth. At a close distance, another snake was sitting. It seemed both snakes were talking to each other. The snake close to the prince was speaking to the snake in the prince’s mouth, asking him: “Why don’t you leave the prince’s body? He’s kind and generous.”
The snake in the prince’s mouth answered the other snake: “Don’t advise me, because you’re also an evil snake who attacks people. You have no right to tell me what to do.” The princess thought quickly how to deal with this problem. Indeed, the princess attacked both snakes and killed them after gathering her courage. When her husband the prince woke up, she told him about the snakes. The prince felt great happiness and decided to tell her the entire truth.
Then they decided to return to the prince’s palace in his father’s kind and wise kingdom. The king was happy to see his son and that the devilish snake had left him. When the king learned that his son’s wife the princess had killed the snake, his happiness was boundless. The prince and princess lived in happiness for a long time. After several years, the entire kingdom celebrated the birth of the prince and princess’s two children, as they had given birth to twins, one a boy and the other a girl.
The Lesson of the Story:
Truth and defending good always reward their possessor with all good from Allah. Courage always leads its owner to the right path. Sometimes we may fall into a major problem, but the more the situations become critical, the closer salvation is from Allah.
The story is translated from: The Prince and The Snake