In ancient times, there was a traveler known as Abu al-Nadhr. This man was constantly traveling, going here and there in God’s vast earth. He had been accustomed to this throughout his life. One of his characteristics was that he left for himself a friend in every town he visited. When he reached seventy years of age, he decided to return to Basra once again to visit one of his old friends named Abu al-Yasar. ...
Little Omar was sitting in front of the TV next to his father, watching a football match together and listening to the commentator’s comments. Here he heard him shouting at the player, “Come on, Majid, quickly! You must be quick for such kicks.” Omar paid attention to this conversation and turned to ask his father. He asked him how he could always tell him that “in deliberation, safety,” while this commentator was shouting that speed and haste were required. How was this, and was it reasonable to be hasty in any matter? His father answered him, patting him on the shoulders, “The player will not hear this commentator’s shout, and the whole matter is nothing more than stirring up excitement and nothing more. Rather, the correctness lies in not being hasty and in deliberation that achieves great victory.” Omar, who was always hasty by nature and did not like deliberation, was not convinced and waited for an answer that would suit his haste. ...
In a solitary garden, beautiful in its corners, good in character, lived a violet contented among her peers, swaying joyfully among the grass stems. On one morning, crowned with dewdrops, she raised her head and looked around her. She saw a rose stretching toward the heights with a slender stature and a head towering proudly as if it were a flame of fire above a lamp made of emerald. The Violet: The violet opened her blue mouth and sighed, saying, “How little is my fortune among the flowers, and how low is my station among them! Nature created me small and insignificant. I live clinging to the earth’s surface and cannot raise my stature toward the blueness of the sky or turn my face toward the sun as the roses do.” ...
One day, a huge caravan set out from Iraq, containing more than one hundred and fifty camels carrying on their backs many goods of different shapes and types, strange and unique as well. It also included dozens of travelers from merchants, sellers, and others who went with the caravan in search of livelihood. After that huge caravan reached a place with some shade, the merchants and everyone in the caravan went to take some rest, for fatigue had reached its utmost extent. Indeed, everyone went to the shade and slept until they woke up again after a period of time to the sound of one of the merchants shouting that his money had been stolen. ...
I climbed on the steps of the ladder, thinking of a way to deceive my mother with a watch for her, then I threw on her feet and said: Oh elder children, I saw them wearing watches, and I am now big, my mother gave me a watch to look for the time, but I have been waiting long and I don’t love to wait. I Found a Watch: Then Sana looked at her precious hand, raised it to her mother and bit her with force, and while the surprised mother looked at her smiling, she said: Ah, I got my watch! Sana threw the happy to her friend, and while she was walking, she fell on the ground weakly. Watch! Fake watch! Very fake, how does this dream come true with this speed? Sana left, running to the house. ...
There was a tulip living with the rest of tulip flowers in a beautiful garden, people were traveling in it, and children were playing among its trees. The tulip flowers were the most beautiful flowers in the garden, but they were not always colorful. Tulips and Changing Seasons: In autumn season, they would lose their leaves and remain with their cold branches in winter season, and when spring season comes, new tulip flowers appear for all tulips, and tulips as well, and they wear beautiful clothes from white flowers, and they enjoy their cool shadows refreshing from the cool autumn wind that provides shades for all in the garden, and saves them from heat of mornings and evenings, and plays its breeze to make the weather moderate for the city and its roads. ...
One cannot ignore nature and its instincts under any circumstances, for what you think has changed for your sake may not be the case. God, the Exalted and Sublime, created all His creatures with different characteristics and natures, including the tame and the ferocious, and in his dealings with these animals, man should not forget this difference. Once, in a beautiful village on the outskirts of India, a man named Bahu was accustomed to living alone in his house. He loved animals very much and wanted to keep a pet for himself to keep him company. One day, while walking along the road to the village, he saw a snake with beautiful colors searching for food. Bahu was so impressed with the snake that he decided to keep it as a pet to raise in his house. ...
There is a famous saying that says: Everything you discover by searching for it already existed before, but you were more arrogant than to see it. In a village on top of high mountains, there was a wise old man living with mountain flowers calmly, and he had much wisdom and knowledge. One time, the wise old man prepared for a journey to the holy Mecca, and during his journeys to holy Mecca, he would meet pilgrims and greet them peacefully with his presence. ...
Loyalty and trust are two of the traits of the believers and important characteristics of a noble man when he remembers that he is entrusted with his neighbor. His goodness increases in the eyes of those around him, as they feel with him that he practices the morals of God and His religion in the earth, so he is not treacherous or oppressive. Trust is the source of his happiness that he spreads among all. If he practices it himself, others will also practice it. ...
The bird repeated: Where is my mother? The girl said: Don’t fly oh father, we will find her together. Come on oh son, hold the feather with you. The bird is bigger than me. Bigger by a lot. The girl said: Bigger? Yes, he said. She said to him: I saw your mother coming oh small, I will leave you from her. The bird said: No, no, this is for my mother. It is not small and not big. And it has no beak and no wings. And it is completely different from me even in eating. Its food resembles my food. ...