One day when the Imam was taking a stroll, he stopped beside a fragrant rose flower stem and said: “When ‘Ali comes to touch this flower, the thorns will cut his has hand. Cut off the pointed end of the thorn so that it does not cause problem for ‘Ali.” Incidentally the gardener, who would tend the flowers, chipped off all the thorns right from the top to the bottom of the stem. Later when he saw it, he said with regret: “Why has the gardener done this and chipped off all of them! I meant that he cut only the thorn that was beneath. Why has he damaged this flower?”
Be careful that the thorn dose not cause problem for Haj Fatimah Tabataba’i