5.2.2.2 - King al-Zahir Ghazi son of King al-Nasser Saladin

In Aleppo, as in many of the cities he had visited before, Shaykh Muhyiddin was widely accepted by both the sultans as well as the general people, and he was often sought for solving their problems and to bring their issues to the sultan, just as had happened with him since the beginning of his travels to Tunisia in 589/1194 as we described in Chapter III.

In Aleppo, the Greatest Shaykh had an audible word with its ruler, King al-Zahir Ghazi, son of King al-Nasser Saladin Yusuf Ibn Ayyub, where the Shaykh used to forward to him the needs of the people as often as one time he presented for him one hundred and eighteen issues in one meeting, and he solved them all!

One of these issues was critical to the point that the subject was sentenced to death because he disclosed secret information that threaten the king who then asked his deputy in the castle Badr al-Din Edemore to keep this issue secret so that Shaykh Muhyiddin would not learn about it. However, when he did, he never hesitated to ask the king to forgive this person, but the king said: you should know first his guilt, and that it is something that cannot be forgiven! At that Shaykh Muhyiddin said to king: Oh, look at you, I thought you do have the vigor of kings, and that you have the power! By God, I am one of your people and I know no sin in the world that resists my forgiveness, how then and you are the king and you do not pardon him. Are you not ashamed, you have such a low vigor! In response, the king felt shy and and released the subject and thanked Shaykh Muhyiddin, saying to him: May God reward you for your sincere advice, none is better than you to sit with the king.

After this incident, Shaykh Muhyiddin said that the king did not hesitate to honor his requests immediately abd without any delay [The Meccan Conquests: c. 4, p. 539].