Sharing responsibility with the "Unreasonable"

 Quli Qutb was losing his hair, literally. The ruthless ruler and the strongest fighter was losing his hair.

Conquering enemies, enslaving the weak had expanded the boundary line of his kingdom, but lately his mind was desperately looking for a miracle to stop his receding hairline. 

Quli Qutb could not accept his future self to be bald. 

Hakim Adil explained the role of nature and asked Quli to accept his situation. He also made it very clear that no treatment would be able to prevent him from being bald. Quli insisted for a solution to which Hakim Adil obliged, and he made him a potion. 

Quli tried that potion for a few weeks, which seemed to have worked only temporarily. But one day coming out of shower he noticed the fateful hair on his robe. Infuriated, he rushed out of his palace and killed the Hakim in the court yard. 

All the Vaidya’s and Hakim’s (physicians) were alarmed by this and silently prayed not be summoned by Quli to treat his hairless problem. 

Quli’s next pick was Vaidya Anand, who was a very experienced physician and had an impeccable reputation of curing the incurable. 

Vaidya Anand told Quli , “There is a solution and it is not against nature. Baldness can completely be reversed”. 

Quli was happy to hear that. 

“However, my medicine works only for mentally strong people. The weak one’s do not benefit from this medicine”. 

Quli knew he was the strongest. He smiled at a positive possibility. 

Anand said calmly, “It’s an oil that you need to massage on to your head for 15 mins, but it has to start working only on a shaved head. So you have to shave all your hair off to start with. And then when you apply the oil, if the thought of your bald head in future comes to your mind even once, you should shave again clean and re-start the with the medicinal oil the next day”. 

Before Quli could question the practicality of this, Anand murmured audibly, "The king of Junagarh got back his long flowing hair in just one year, using this medicine. I have not seen such a strong mind".

Years on, Quli still had a clean shaven head. And Vaidya Anand was chief of physicians in the royal court.