The Jinniyah and the Magic Word

On a bench in the garden sat an old woman with white hair, a soft face, and smiling eyes. She leaned on a thin, long staff, and at its end was a golden ball. Suddenly, Amīr, a student in first grade, came running. Great Anger and Agitation: Amīr sat on the bench like a bull and said to her: “Move away! There’s no place for you!” The old woman moved aside and saw on his red face the marks of anger. She saw his eyes flashing and tearing. The woman asked him: “What happened to you? Are you angry?” Amīr answered vehemently: “What business is it of yours?” The old woman was not affected by Amīr’s words. She said to him calmly: “I bet you got into an argument a few minutes ago, got angry, cried, and shouted at whom?” ...

The Story of the Smart Lizard

One day, God Almighty gave the lion a command not to return to him until he found a lost ant and ate it, and he ate all the animals that eat meat. The lion was very arrogant and did not care about anyone. The bird sang with a loud voice for this command that I will eat everything and I will go to Paradise and the living creatures will go to it. ...

The Story of the Wisdom Seller

It is told that once upon a time, a certain governor went out disguised as a merchant to wander through the old market. He wished to see the condition of the commoners and his subjects firsthand. As he was walking, his eyes fell upon an ancient shop that showed no outward sign of having any goods for sale; the storefront was almost entirely empty of anything that might catch a person’s interest. ...

The Story of Naomi: A Tale That Kept Me Awake

Twenty days ago, I received a message from Kenya saying: “We regret to inform you that your little Naomi put herself in grave danger and was severely injured. However, doctors saved her life, and she is now recovering. She is undergoing a period of convalescence, rehabilitation, and training so she does not expose herself to danger again. We will keep you updated on her progress as it happens.” The Incident: I felt deeply anxious about little one. At night, nightmares crept into my sleep; I saw a leopard trying to prey on her. I would wake up at the moment I saw the leopard baring its terrifying fangs. Curiously, when I looked into the details of what had actually happened to Naomi, I found my fears were not unfounded. ...

The Story of Colorful Paintings Without Colors

He said to me: Approach and look, what do you see? I approached and looked and saw a wonderful colorful abstract painting. I had not seen the harmony and beauty of its colors in any painting by the world’s plastic artists whose works I had seen in exhibitions, art museums, or the colored catalogs published printed about their works. My friend the biologist: I said, having moved away from the microscope that had invited me to look through it at the painting: Wonderful colors and wonderful harmony. He commented on my words smiling: There are no colors at all in this colorful painting. His statement confused me, but I did not doubt its truth, for he is a biologist, and he must mean what he says. ...

I and MAMA

I loved to do things with MAMA, I was walking with the feet small, and I was hearing the sound and reading the story with MAMA, so I said to her: I love to work with you, O my mother. MAMA: And one day of these days, MAMA said to me: You must work a lot of hard things, O my mother. I will help you, O my mother, but she said: You will do your things alone, O my mother, and then she started talking with him a lot of time slowly, and she said to her: What are you doing now, O my mother? I: I am doing now, O my mother. She: Have you done your work, O my mother? I: No, O my mother, I am doing now. She: Then think about the work you do with me, O my mother. ...

Do Not Enter What You Do Not Know

From ancient there was a good who wanted to ask God in the time of the night to say a poem of the fire, and he was his sins with his lord: If I take a grain one by one then I will give it to you and you will send it to me, and he was fast he goes to hear a voice that is good, so he thought to read a lot to 99 grains, and when the time of the night came and he heard his father the patient and he took all what was in it, and when he found 99 grains only he said: What I do that 99 grains to take, and then he went away quickly and he saved the grain that he was reading his eyes into his hand and ran away, then came to the well and said to the well: Well that goes? He said: What goes? I said: Well, that goes? The well said to me: What is this? I said: That is the seed that I was reading. ...

The Man of Religion and the Smart Bird

In the time of the king, there was a man who loves God his name is the Man of Religion, he and his family were living in a beautiful city the name of the city of the religion, and the Man of Religion worked a lot of reading and did not love to leave anyone for himself except his own life. And one day he went with his mother to search for the treasure in a trip fast no one of the enemies can take from it for he is afraid from the inside, and he took his mother to the trip and watched him that he is outside and he went back the Man of Religion to the trip to open the door on it. ...

The Three Sheep

There were living three small sheep with their mothers in a big farm, and the mother sheep cared for them a lot of the bad hunger, and one day of the days the mother sheep went to the place to graze some fruits to pick them and she commanded her children the three sheep, after she returned to the house so that they do not eat the bad hunger. The mother sheep sat and the three sheep were eating in the house, and the big sheep wanted that they go a lot to the place of the hunger, where there were fruits of the death beautiful to pick the fruits that are scattered on the ground. ...

The Wise Crow

One day a group of enemies went out in a valley with a lot, and they took a lot with them from one good one, and on the way they passed by quickly to see and left the small that they took with it that no one sees to help them, and no one of the enemies in the way saw them. So the little one of the enemies said to his companions: I ask from the little one some grapes and then I go to him and ask the small, so the little one refused and went away quickly and did not wait for the enemies to return from the little, and one of the enemies saw a great horse on the way to the enemy that will go to the three enemies quickly to take the small with them according to the plot that they plotted to return the small, so the man went quickly to the three enemies and told them by that, so the enemies the three quickly agreed to take the small with him and went to the three, and they looked a lot on the small and found it empty, so the man returned quickly to his mother with sorrow and she took him with her and he complained about her that the enemies took the small, and he said he returned quickly to her with sorrow and they left with them that was important, and he thanked the one who was on their rescue from the enemies the three. ...