What is your petition? Preparing a formal meal for Ahasuerus and for Haman, the prime minister of the kingdom,, was the way the Esther found to make her petition to the king. According to historians, it was not common for the monarch to deny a petition made in a anxiety and her fear and to wait for the right moment. First she turned to the Most High, with prayer and fasting; after, she conquered the attention of her husbands to finally say what afflicted her.