The Story of Desert Water

In a distant village, there lived two skilled craftsmen, James and Alex. They were close friends who loved carving artifacts from clay. They made toys, vessels, containers, and tableware. But because their village was small, they earned little from their work and didn’t have enough in the evening, yet they didn’t complain. They advised each other. Alex would say to James, “Learn to focus on one thing and know your strengths.” ...

Always Follow Your Heart

Monty Roberts was a wonderful child, and his father worked as a horse trainer. Monty was used to moving constantly from one farm to another, but in reality, they didn’t own any horses because they were poor. When Monty grew up a little, he went to school, and one day he asked his teacher to write him a detailed composition about what he wanted to be when he grew up, which was 7 pages long about his goal in the future. He was dreaming of owning a horse farm, and he had drawn the farm in detail, including the houses, stables, and even the barn doors of the house, and gave the composition to his teacher. ...

The Story of the Golden-Haired Ogre

In ancient times, in a small city, fortune smiled upon a poor couple when they were blessed with a son who had a scepter mark behind his left ear. They prophesied greatness for him, and that he would bring luck and wealth not only to his parents but to the entire city. They also prophesied that he would marry the king’s daughter as soon as he became a young man. ...

The Seeds

There were four small seeds who enjoyed a good friendship with each other. Once, the winds stopped them, and they finally landed in the forest. They remained there hidden in the ground, hoping to be able to grow and become beautiful trees. But when the first seed began to germinate, everyone realized it wouldn’t be an easy task in that forest. A group of monkeys lived there, and the smallest monkeys armed themselves by throwing bananas at any plant they noticed had begun to grow. Using this game, the monkeys learned how to throw bananas, and it also kept the forest free of vegetation cover. ...

The Story of Skin Disease

One day a group of young men went out for a recreation and ate a delicious dinner in the forest after the afternoon, then they all rested in the shade of a tree and talked a lot and exchanged conversations for a long time. Some of them found them to take the firewood, and one of them was named Adel who was rich and wise, and his father had a lot of money, and he and his father were the only ones. ...

The Story of the Fabric Merchant

Work by yourself, succeed and reap a good reward for what your hands have done, for this is the peak of strength and good planning, so do not expect someone to guide you to the way of success. If you have a certain goal, you must strive from the sake of achieving it in the shape you desire, and enjoy the elevation of your spirit with what you have achieved of goals, overcoming all obstacles that face you during your pursuit in reaching your goals. ...

There is No Despair

We live in the successes throughout the years to reach our goals one after the other, and we face the obstacles and plants that may confuse our voice some of the time, but the most important of all is not to despair, without working with a sincerity in the cause of God, and not to increase from the effort until we reach the desired goal. This is what he has been doing for a long time to realize his goals. ...

Randa Becomes a Writer

Randa, a smart, polite, and hard-working girl, would every day when she returned from her school in the afternoon, help her mother in housework, then study her lessons, then sit for reading. The topic of the essay that the teacher had given her yesterday was saying: Write a creative topic about what you want to become in the future. Randa wrote beautiful things, saying she loved to become an important and famous writer. Randa read her topic in front of her classmates and teacher in the class. The teacher was amazed at her beautiful style, elegant phrases, and new ideas. ...

The Bird That Cannot Fly

Once upon a time, there was one of the beautiful valleys full of flowers and large trees with long branches and green leaves, where a small bird was born in a nest at the top of one of the tree branches. That nest was full of eggs. On a bright spring morning, the small birds that emerged from the eggs were born, except only one that was delayed in coming out, as it took a little longer to break the egg and see the light of morning. ...

Jamil and Jamila

It is told that a girl named Jamila lived with her grandmother after her parents died. Her grandmother loved her very much and was always afraid something bad would happen to her. She didn’t allow her to go out with the girls. Jamila was a girl of extreme beauty, and when she grew up, Jamil, her cousin, proposed to her. In the same village, there were six girls who weren’t as beautiful as her, and none of them loved Jamila, nor did anyone propose to them. But they imagined Jamila was an arrogant girl because she didn’t play with them. Under the influence of jealousy and envy, the six girls went to Jamila’s grandmother and said to her, “Allow Jamila to go out with us today to the forest to gather firewood.” ...