Wisdom

This wondrous story occurred in ancient times, in a distant land whose name the narrators forgot. In that time, a thousand crows lived in that land, and a thousand owls. The crows built their nests among the leaves of a high, dense-branched tree. The owls made their homes in caves inside a large mountain surrounding the crows’ tree. Years passed, year after year. Then a greedy king ruled the owls, neither wise nor brave. One day he looked toward the crows’ tree to be his resort and for his close followers. Because he was cowardly, he didn’t declare war on the black birds, but rather betrayed his black neighbors, the inhabitants of the tree. He attacked them suddenly while they were sleeping in safety, killing a large number of them. ...

Mahir was the son of one of the largest and wealthiest businessmen. When Mahir’s father died, Mahir found an iron box among his father’s things. There were things in the iron box that Mahir didn’t know. At the same time, Mahir was traveling to the city to conduct some business, so he couldn’t open the iron box. He took it with him to work. During work, Mahir gave the box to his colleague and business manager. His business manager’s name was Razi. ...

One day, Yogi and his student arrived at the big city. Yogi had undertaken to teach and train his student. They didn’t have money, but they needed food and a place to stay. The student was certain they were going to beg for their food and sleep in public parks at night. The student said: There is a big garden not far from here. Can we sleep there at night in the open air? Yogi answered his student’s question. The student said: Yes. ...

In the village farm, a white gosling lived with the rest of the geese, who were gray in color. His color was less beautiful than the white gosling’s color, who was vain with himself, proud of his different color. He went and came among the birds, priding himself, happy with the birds’ gazes around him at his attractive feather and clear color. But the birds began to be annoyed by his pride in himself, ignoring him or saying to him: Why all this boasting? Do you think there is no white gosling in the world except you? The goose noticed that the birds started looking at the black rooster. ...

In one of the countries overlooking the river, there was a beautiful farm with a spacious house where a gluttonous woman lived, who loved food very much, especially chicken eggs. She would go out every day from the house to the farm where she raised chickens to get delicious eggs, and she would thank the chickens for these eggs. The gluttonous woman would enjoy eating the chicken eggs and have them for breakfast. One morning, the gluttonous woman went out to collect eggs from the farm. The gluttonous woman collected the eggs as usual, and the woman would enjoy eating the eggs in different ways every morning, sometimes fried and sometimes boiled. ...

There was a peasant named Jaber who lived in a village. He had a small plot of land. On a hot day, the peasant Jaber was digging in the ground when suddenly his pick struck something. The peasant decided to continue digging, then he found a large pot inside the ground. The large pot was rich because it would provide the peasant with food for a hundred people. The peasant thought the pot wouldn’t be of any use to him, so he decided to dig deeper, hoping he would find something else. The peasant continued digging. ...

It is told that in ancient times, Juha decided to give the Sultan a wonderful gift on his birthday. So he chose to give him a cooked goose. So he brought a fat goose and slaughtered it and cleaned it well, then placed it in a pot with water on the fire, and put on it the spices and water to make it tasty, and all the goose needed so that its meat would cook. And indeed, when its meat cooked, Juha looked at it for a long time, then said: And now, oh my dear goose, the Sultan will eat you alone, with enjoyment and health. ...

The events of the story take place in ancient times between Juha and his neighbor, the stingy man, who lived by borrowing things from other people, using them, and refusing to buy for himself, despite being very rich. The events of the story revolve around what Juha did with him to teach him a lesson he would learn from: to stay away from people’s things, abandon the bad trait of stinginess, and use his money to buy his needs. ...

There was a large forest with many birds and animals. One of the times, there was a bull walking in the forest. He stood before a cave. Near the cave was a large pool and a patch of land covered with green grass. The bull thought this place was suitable to be his home. The bull began sleeping in the cave and began turning it into his home. Many days passed. The bull felt that his new home pleased him greatly, to the point that his health became much better. The bull was happy and felt safe. He had many friends in the forest. ...

In the large forest, the animals’ houses were close to each other. They would reassure each other, ask about each other when one was absent, and visit each other when one was sick. One morning, the female deer met her neighbor the rabbit. She greeted him and said: “Peace be upon you.” The rabbit returned the greeting: “And upon you peace, oh neighbor deer. How are you? I haven’t seen you for some days, perhaps you were unwell.” ...