Cunning

In a village there was a large group of rats living a normal life, in a hole of a big cat who was pursuing them, and it was chasing and eating them always, and it would be the greatest terror for them, and whenever they would escape from it, they would live days in terror, fear and anxiety. One day, when the cat was hungry and wanted to eat, it set out to the street and saw a dog with a piece of meat in his mouth, so the cat approached him and asked him to give her the piece of meat, but the dog refused and ate the meat and continued on his way, and when the dog was full he brought the rest of the meat and carried it to his house for his owner and his brothers to eat. ...

There was a large group of rats living normally in their hole of a big wicked cat who was pursuing them and it was chasing and eating them always, and it would be the greatest terror for them, and they were suffering a lot from her. One day, the cat was hungry and wanted to eat, so it set out to the street and saw a dog with a piece of meat in his mouth, so the cat approached him and asked him to give her the piece of meat, but the dog refused and ate the meat and continued on his way, and when the dog was full he brought the rest of the meat and carried it to his house for his owner and his brothers to eat. ...

In a small village lived three sisters, fish very clever and cunning, in a very happy and rich land where they spent what they loved to desire, from food and drink, and in the same village there was a shark, a wicked fish seeing the three sisters and wanting to eat them, but despite her attempts she could not overcome the three sisters. With her cunning and deceiving them and she did not reach for the shark except that she fled, and she escaped from the three sisters each one alone, so the shark went to the clever fish and said to her in a beautiful tone that you are a very beautiful fish of golden color and she said to her how do you run and play three of them you who are more beautiful than me, eat me to get away from them. ...

In a small village there was a dog who loved a boy, and he gave his life to serve him, he was protecting the village from the pests of the wolf, and when he ate in the noon he would go out with his energy and go out, and he would think in God in his work more than he would eat in the work. So the owner became angry with him and threw away his food, so the dog took from the owner and fled to the desert to spend in it what remains from his life, and there the wolf had been seeing his presence in the desert since days, so he came to him suddenly in the morning because of his breaking his promises to him, so the wolf the deceitful put a trick on the dog who was always telling the truth with him, and he made him see that the dog was working to deceive him with the talk, so the wolf set out to betray him on the pretext that he would live a second time in the farm with the help of the wolf, and that is because his health had not become clear to him with the breaking, and while the owner and his wife were in a state in the heart, the wolf acted with cunning and went to the desert until he saw the dog coming from his hole of the wolf’s badness, and the wolf showed his great cunning and took the dog from the farm because of his extreme fear from the hunger and thirst that was afflicting him, and he ran to his master seeing him surprised that he had escaped from the hunger by the dog’s help. ...

In the season of spring, there was a locust loving the flowers and their fruits, and there was a small active ant loving to work very much. In every morning, the bees used to wake up on the sound of the locust in love and near the tree, so he would stay away from his house until the time of eating, to eat some of the flowers or the leaves, then he would return to his house to eat again until the time of sleep. ...

One day, while there was a dog wandering lost in the shade of a tree, and a donkey carrying a load was passing, and suddenly a donkey fell on the way, and a large piece of meat fell from it without anyone seeing. The hungry dog approached the piece of meat and ate from it a little, then he decided to hide the rest of the meat for the coming days. ...

In ancient times there was a man who called his donkey to work in his village for one of the merchants of dates. His mission was limited to feeding animals and cleaning the ground of the dung. One day, the young man became ill with transferring the dates to the market, so the servant of the cleaning ground lost it in the steps. There was a severe hurry of the donkey owner to the market of the village to present it for sale. In the beginning of the journey, the donkey began to go on its feet suddenly, and between the tree and the other it would count to him to verify the loss of any one of them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, then it would continue the walking, and in the middle of the way it would get tired and would stop. One of the dates merchants would approach him to check the number again, so it would be found lacking. ...

In a large city in the lands of India, it is recounted that a man named Sanjam worked in washing, cleaning, and dyeing clothes. The front of his shop was always filled with clean, colorful clothes that he would hang beautifully. He was energetic in his work and never failed a single appointment with his customers. The Potter Hilāl: Working near him was the potter Hilāl, who made jars of clay. But he was lazy and greedy in his selling, so he did not have many customers like his neighbor Sanjam. The potter Hilāl envied his neighbor Sanjam for his work and said to himself: “I will do an evil turn to my neighbor!” ...