Wisdom

The morning sun woke up from her bed announcing the start of a new day. Umm Nidal was awake arranging the house and preparing breakfast for all her children Nidal, Aisha, and Jamal. The house was beautiful and quiet, its silence broken by the Holy Quran in the morning. Umm Nidal runs for an hour, as she approaches six thirty, she wakes her children with tenderness and softness so they can prepare themselves for school, and she begins to prepare herself to go out to work. ...

Three mothers met near the school entrance, arriving to accompany their children home after the end of the school day. On a side bench sat an old man, listening to the mothers’ conversation! The mothers boasted about their sons: One of them said: My son excels in basketball. He is active and strong. The second said: My son excels in singing, and his voice is wonderful. The third mother heard the words of the first and second mothers… and didn’t speak! ...

There was a white cat called Zaytuna, a black cat called Sudani, a brown cat called Ben Ben, and their friend had a dog with a large mustache called Shanbu. The white cat said to his friends what do you think if we go on a trip to the largest desert in the world? So Sudani said a sandy desert or a frozen desert? He replied to him and said the desert is an arid region where the percentage of rain is very low, which makes living conditions very difficult there for animals and trees. ...

Having good expectations of God is a worship that many people overlook, even though our merciful religion has commanded us with it, and good expectations means that the servant is pleased with what God has divided for him of destinies, events, and gifts, even if they are against his desire or his current ambition. The servant may arrange for himself some matter, and God delays it for him until he is strongly prepared for it, or God changes it for something better than it, so He prevents from him what he desired, for God’s compensation is always good and will not come except according to the servant’s good expectations of his Lord. ...

There was a trustworthy merchant known among people for honesty and trustworthiness, and he always extended a helping hand and assistance to the poor and needy. He dealt in his trade on three principles: tolerance, love, and trustworthiness, and he traded in beautiful silk fabrics and elegant furnishings, and all his goods were very distinguished, and the price was low because he dealt with trustworthiness, so the price was suitable for everyone. ...

Betrayal is an extremely bad trait, a Muslim should not possess it, for our merciful religion has encouraged us to trustworthiness, and both God and His Messenger have commanded us with it, because it is one of the foundations upon which the nation is built. If you see a people lacking trustworthiness among themselves, know that they do not apply the teachings of Islam, and they will suffer their punishment for betrayal and treachery, for treachery destroys its owner. ...

Maintaining family ties is an important part of the teachings of our merciful religion, for God has commanded us with it at times, and His Messenger at other times, for that bond is what remains for a person, his humanity and his good nature that God has created him upon, but do we all realize this matter? One day, the wealthy Salam sat behind his desk, and began to calculate some money before him, then patted a bundle of money before him, and smiled with joy as he spoke to himself, and now I can begin the new deal. As soon as he finished his speech, he heard a knock on the door, so he pushed the money away, and asked his servant about the reason for his coming, so he answered him that his relative and cousin Yusuf wishes to meet him, so Salam answered him with extreme and obvious distress, let him enter. ...

It is told that a righteous man worked in the cloth trade, and was accustomed every year to buying garments and selling them to whoever wanted, and unlike others, he always instructed his workers to tell customers about defects in the fabrics if they found them before buying them. One day a Jewish man came to his shop and bought a defective garment, and the merchant was not present at that time but one of his workers, and he did not care to inform the Jew about the defect because he was not a Muslim. When the owner of the shop arrived and saw that the garment was not present, he asked him about it, so the worker told him that he had sold it to the Jew for three thousand dirhams without informing him of its defect. ...

There was a pirate called Abu Ein who was harsh, violent, and evil, who stole gold from ships and also ice cream from girls, and he treated his employees and workers with extreme severity, but the sailor Murtaq loved apples so he would eat them secretly behind the pirate Abu Ein’s back. One day the pirate saw him, so he ordered the men to throw him into the sea for the sharks. ...

The sun rose in the morning, and the birds began to chirp as they do every day, and the little chicks started picking up grains from the ground, running here and there. After the chicks were full and exhausted from running with their small colored wings, they all lay down under the warm sun’s rays, while the white chick stood, observing the animals in the barnyard, especially the cow. Every day, he looked at it and compared its size to his, and his body to the size of its head! He said to himself how very small I am. ...