Queen of Shah Abdul Latif - Umar Marvi (Umar Maruee)

While at Umerkot I shall not sour this tradition,
The love of hutment cannot be exchanged for a palace.
 Having failed in all his endeavors Umer resorted to shaming her by saying. “You crave so much
for your kin folks but all this time they have not even cared to send any message to you. It is
futile for you to continue to remember them, pine for them and entertain any hope of rescue
from them.” Maruee was unshaken in her resolve. She did not even look at all the allurements
and luxuries kept before her. She would prefer her simple food to the royal feast and the wild
flowers to costly scents offered by the ruler.
In the words of Shah Latif:
My bare threads are more than the gold chain,
Don’t offer silks to poor cowherds O, Umer!
Even a fold of my own upper garment is dear to me.
She entreated Umer to free her so that she may return to her native place and pour water of her
soil on herself. She further told Umer that when she would die in his captivity her body should
be sent to her people so that she may be buried in her native soil.
In the words of Shah Latif:
While pining for my land, were I to breathe my last,
My body be handed over to my people,
May the creepers of my native soil cover my body,
I would live though dead, if buried at Maleer.
All this exasperated Umer. He was all the more sullen. At that time his nurse who came to know
of the situation rushed to Umer and told him that Maruee and he had par taken the milk from the
same wet nurse and thus they are in a way brother and sister. On hearing this Umer was
horrified at the enormity of the crime he was to commit. Immediately he sent a camel rider to
Maleer to Maruee’s parents and asked their forgiveness and gave money and gold to Maruee
as behooves a brother.
 Maruee returned to Maleer with her parents. As Maruee had remained with Umer at his palace
her betrothed Khetsen was suspicious about her chastity. Even in the community Maruee could
not get the respect due to lingering doubts.
 When Umer heard this he came with army to Maleer. This led to her people abandoning their
huts. Maruee went to Umer and told him that he had first committed the crime of abducting her
and on the top of it he has attacked them which is totally unfair. Even if they suspected me they
were not wrong. How would they know that I am still pure? Now you must go back to your
palace.
 Hearing this Umer felt ashamed and offered to undergo any trial to prove the truth. Maruee said
I am the one who is under suspicion therefore I will face the test. An iron rod was put into fire
when that rod was red hot Maruee stretched her palm and held the same in her hand and
emerged unscathed. Then Umer the ruler also insisted on the same test and emerged pure.
This convinced every one and Maruee and Khetsen lived happily ever after till ripe age.