There was an old man who came from his distant home to visit his daughters, Noor and Nadia. His first daughter was named Nadia, married to a diligent farmer. His second daughter, Noor, was married to a man who made porcelain vessels. Noor’s husband loved working hard. He would go out to tend the farm even in the hot noon times. Despite the great effort, the plants weren’t growing well. ...
There was a woman who lived in a house surrounded by a beautiful farm. This woman was very stingy, and she had a poor servant who worked for her. She entrusted him with all the housework: preparing food, cleaning the house, and washing clothes. She even made him supervise the farm and care for the many sheep she owned. Despite the many years of work, this stingy woman never increased his salary; instead, she would decrease it month after month in order to save money. ...
Uncle Sultan was a simple merchant who owned a small shop to sell salt. Uncle Sultan had a white donkey named Hamrun, and Uncle Sultan loved this donkey, until Hamrun became slow-moving, slept a lot, and worked little. The animals on the farm called him Hamrun the Lazy. One day, Uncle Sultan placed a load of salt on Hamrun the Lazy’s back to sell in the market. Hamrun walked as usual very slowly, talking to himself in distress: “When will I rest from this work? When will I eat and drink, sleep and not work?” While he was talking to himself, he fell into a small pool of water, and he started braying and saying: “What is this? I work and tire myself, and I also fall into water?!” ...
There was a worker who washed clothes. He had a dog and a donkey. The dog and donkey helped the worker in many ways. One night, a group of thieves broke into the worker’s house. The dog heard the thieves and started barking at the thieves. The worker woke up from sleep, and the neighbors also woke up. One of the thieves said: What is this? A dog. Let’s escape from here. The thieves felt fear of the consequences of the dog’s barking. They tried to escape, but the neighbors caught them during their escape. ...
One day, the blue fish heard some friends talking about the golden fish, and about her beauty and good character. The blue fish felt extreme jealousy, and she sat crying and felt envy, and said: I will make these fish see that I am the most beautiful fish. The blue fish stood before the mirror and said: I want to appear more beautiful than the golden fish, and she spent a long time before the mirror, admiring her appearance before leaving the house every day. The blue fish went out of her house, carrying a basket to collect fruits, so her friends said to her you appear beautiful today. ...
There was a simple man working in cleaning clothes, and he had a donkey and a horse. The donkey carried the clothes to the river, washed them with the water, and the donkey returned another time to the house, and the horse carried the simple man to the market and returned with him to the house. The donkey thought he works more than the horse. On Sunday the man and the horse were sick and the work was on the way to the river with the donkey. The donkey walked with him excessively until he escaped from the river. The donkey was carrying a large basket of dirty clothes on his back. ...
The events of the story revolve around the loyalty of the dog that the beautiful child Maysoun received as a gift from her mother on her birthday since her childhood. They grew up together, and he became a small dog, and he used to fear for her and protect her. It happened that one day of the holidays of the week, the child Maysoun went out for recreation, but Maysoun fell in the valley alone from the severity of her fatigue, so the faithful dog was the reason for saving her and returning her to her house safe once again. ...
The events of the story of the lazy ant revolve around the difference between the result of work and diligence and effort, and the result of laziness and lethargy, and what will befall the lazy ant as a result of her stubbornness and extreme laziness, and how she was able to transform from a lazy ant to an obedient and active and diligent ant. The story: It is told that one day, the queen of the ant called out with the loudest of her voice, to all the ants present in the kingdom, for winter had approached, and the ants must work with greater speed than they were accustomed to, so they could store the largest amount of food sufficient for them for the coming winter season, to eat from it and feed their young. ...
One day there was a small happy family living in a cottage near the forest, consisting of a father, a mother, a boy, and a girl, Hansel and Gretel. One day, the mother became very sick and died. The father married another woman. The stepmother was cruel and didn’t love Hansel and Gretel. One day, Hansel heard his stepmother agreeing with one of the hunters to take the two children with him and leave them inside the forest. ...
There was an old woman who lived with her grandson named Salim in a beautiful village. That old woman loved her grandson a lot and was kind to him. One morning, the old woman got up and went to the kitchen and cut two loaves of bread and a large raisin, and covered it on the tray. Salim looked at the raisin and found it very shiny and said, “What is this, O my grandmother? The raisin that you feed us every day is beautiful. But this is delicious.” Then he cooled it with amazement, so the old woman looked at the raisin and held it and said to him, “What’s the matter? After all, I have not heard this word from you. I was falling from the tree a long time ago, and I ate, then I killed the wolf, and I ate the dog and then I died, and after all this effort, I turned with a face like this and am eating raisins with thanks on the floor? Did the dog come to you to bring the raisins?” ...