The Story of Marouf the Cobbler
It is told that in ancient times lived a man named Marouf in the city of Cairo, and Marouf was a poor cobbler who worked on patching shoes and soles them, but he was in dire straits, and rarely came to him a man or woman requesting him to patch their sole. Marouf’s wife was a sharp-tongued, harsh-hearted woman who treated him with harshness and heard from her nothing but bad words because of the thinness of his condition. ...