Juha had a land that he plowed and planted. He rejoiced whenever he saw the grain of wheat he had sown and buried in the soil come out as a small ear that grew and grew and grew, became filled with large grains, turned yellow, and swayed with its sisters while the wind played with them. Juha in Summer: In the summer, he would harvest the ears with the sickle and heap them, then wrap each heap with a rope and carry it to the threshing floor for threshing. He would harvest and sing and entertain the harvesters. At night, he would stay up with his companions at the threshing floors, telling stories. ...

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 ancient times, in a distant country between countries, one of the princesses lived with her mother the queen in a high castle. The princess was still a small child when her father the king died, so she grew up in the care of her mother the queen. The princess grew up and became a charming girl. Once, the queen said to her daughter, “You are now a girl, my daughter, and it is time for you to marry. A young prince from a neighboring kingdom has asked for your hand.” ...

In the commercial center, at the exit door from the cinema, there is a door with a sign that whoever passes now should hold the door for the next one. The door remembers a story that happened! Strolling in the Commercial Center and Watching the Movie: Once, in some days, Majid went with his mother to watch an animated movie at the Joy Cinema in that commercial center. When the movie screening ended, everyone gathered immediately and headed toward the exit door. This door was very strange! ...

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.” ...

A sign reading “Small Dogs for Sale” was hanging on the wall of a shop. When a small boy reached it, he entered and asked about the price of the dogs. The seller told him that each puppy was sold for about three hundred lira. Buying the Puppy: The boy extended his hand into his pocket and found a generous amount of money. When he knew he could buy a puppy, he asked the seller to see the dogs in the shop. The seller whistled for the dogs, and a large dog came out, with five puppies walking behind her. One of the puppies was lagging behind his brothers in walking. The way that puppy walked caught the attention of this small boy, so he asked the seller, “Why is this puppy limping?” ...

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. ...