Teaching

Cooperation is a great value and instinct for the forest. We must spread it and work on spreading it among us. If we planted in ourselves this rooted value, our helping each other would become strong and great in the most difficult of circumstances and narrow situations, which may exist in the life of some of us. This is what the good cat Rose did. Rose was a cat of the striped type living in a rich family’s house, with a beautiful garden. Beautiful plants and fragrant fruits grew in it, and animals with beautiful fragrances would come to it from the fruits that God created for us, so that we benefit from their eating and strengthen our bodies when we eat them continuously without neglecting from us. ...

The cat Umbara suffered from the boy Omar who used to chase her a lot, for Omar would grab on the cat’s tail until he almost strangled her and she screamed and meowed severely. This was Omar’s doing in order to tame his grip around her tail and relieve from his pressure on her, and sometimes he would carry her from her nose and make her swing between his hand and the cat would become saved and meowed, but she would not find anyone saving her and leaving him playing loudly with what he did. ...

Hamsa the sister lived together, and their father was alive. It was the habit of their sisters to swim all the time, every morning and evening. This was their habit. The First Encounter: One time she went to swim. She was swimming in a deep place. There was a small snake swimming. The small snake was the size of a frog and extremely beautiful. She approached swimming toward her, extended her hand, so the small snake bit the palm of her hand. She took it with her. When she reached the bank of the river, the snake cut some tree leaves and placed the small snake in them, then returned her clothes and took it with her to the house. ...

Cooperation and justice are praiseworthy values that we must all adhere to so that love, peace, and good may prevail upon us. However, we must consider in our minds that not everyone can adhere to values like these. Therefore, it is our duty to teach our friends. Adhering to such good qualities is part of our adherence to our religion, for cooperation and judging between people with justice are the two pillars of life that enable us to obtain our rights, grant others their rights, and become in our lives an example and lesson that we judge between our brothers with justice and fairness. ...

It has come in this great day when all the animals in the forest woke up early because it was the day of the big race for shoes. Everyone gathered again at the tenth hour exactly by the sea. The tortoise also arrived, which was the most beautiful and oldest in the forest, but she was hated for becoming old for any animal in the garden. She began mocking the remaining animals and shouted with a loud voice: Ha… Ha… Ha, mocking the hedgehog who was short and very slow. ...

In a land of ancient times and a new earth, a man named Murjan the carpenter lived. He was a young man who loved to travel and tour across the sea and mountains, but he decided after years of long travel to return to his homeland and live in peace. He traveled a long distance until he reached a big city, where he was in extreme fatigue and exhaustion. Hunger and thirst were consuming him completely. ...

In one of the famous telecommunications companies, a man named Michael worked. Michael was a smiling man, the type who always used to smile at life and look at the bright side in it. Michael always advised his colleagues at the company to look at everything positive in life so they would enjoy it. Once, one of the company’s employees went up to his office and asked him how he could be positive all the time. Michael said to him: When I wake up every morning, I tell myself you have two choices today: either to be in a good mood or in a bad one, and I always choose the good mood. ...

In the house of one of the farmers, a group of small dogs was living with their mother. One time, the farmer wanted to sell them, so he placed on the wall of his house a board written on it: There are dogs here for sale. One day, this board fell, so the farmer went to fix it. While he was like this, he felt the touch of a small hand pulling from his clothes. He opened to find a small child. ...

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. ...

In ancient times, there was a good farmer who owned an animal farm. Among them were three small rabbits, each with a different color and also different characteristics from his brothers. The first rabbit was gray in color, a gentle rabbit but ate greedily. Whenever he saw food, he would eat it all. As for the second, he was black in color, enjoyed extreme cleverness but unfortunately was quick to anger and emotion. He would quickly get angry and emotional over any matter. As for the third, he was white in color, extremely polite but unfortunately extremely lazy and lived in a dream world. He would imagine day and night where the white rabbit would enjoy. He would imagine greatly, and the good farmer would care for them all, never distinguishing in his dealings with them at all. ...