God reduces the punishment of the stake to that of a thorn prick.1 How can this be known? The answer, “We experience many such occasions and it also happens throughout the universe. By checking thoroughly we come to know that bad times are turned into good and many difficulties have been removed.” Footnotes: 1. 1. That is, someone is sentenced to death or some other horrendous fate, but then is saved from this fate and is only subjected to minor punishment.