It is told that a poor man named Shaban lived in a village bordering a mountain. Every day the man went out to search for salt among rocks, caves, and valleys. Whenever he found an amount of salt, he carried it in a sack on his shoulders and sold it to the villagers. He had no children to spend on except himself and his wife. One day he returned carrying a sack of salt to his house and placed it in a corner of the room where he lived with his wife. ...
The white cat Sasha asked her friend Farah to go out to play in the garden adjacent to their home—a garden where she often sat on the windowsill looking at it from afar. But Farah refused Sasha’s request and said to her, “Going out is dangerous for you, especially since you’re a cat raised in a house and don’t know the ways of street cats.” Sasha was angry and decided one morning to leave without Farah’s knowledge. She jumped from the window to the road to go to the garden, when a speeding car almost hit her, were it not for the driver pressing hard on the brakes. The car stopped near Sasha, who was very frightened and ran with great force into the garden. ...
There was once a king who had a beautiful daughter. Many young men wanted to marry her, but the king thought carefully about the matter and found that they weren’t good for his daughter. Among those who wanted to marry her were the Prince of Fire and the Prince of Rain. The Prince of Rain came to the king’s daughter and said to her, “Will you marry me, daughter of the king?” She answered yes in agreement. At the same time, the Prince of Fire came to the king and said, “I want to marry your daughter. Will you consent to give her to me to be my wife?” The king said, “Yes, I agree.” ...
One day, it was raining from a little boy’s homework book. There was a group of beautiful rainbow colors, and a conversation was going on between them about what each of them had given the black color, because the little boy had not used it at all. The other beautiful rainbow colors were angry about this matter, and they started to quarrel and say: You do not deserve to sit with us in this place. For the little boy does not like to use you in his drawings. He uses us all to draw natural beautiful pictures with our bright colors, but you do not have any place in those beautiful pictures. ...
Once upon a time there was a large apple tree filled with delicious large apples, and a beautiful child lived beside it who loved to play around that tree. The child enjoyed climbing the tree, jumping, and eating some of its delicious fruits every day. That tree loved playing with the child every day very much, and found happiness and joy upon seeing him. Days passed and that small child grew into a fifteen-year-old boy. One day the tree asked him to come and play with her. ...
The events of the story revolve around the difference between freedom and slavery, where two friends meet - a dog and a wolf. The dog’s condition was much better than the wolf’s. The dog was fat and healthier than the wolf, while the wolf was destitute, extremely thin to the point that the bones of his body protruded from the heavy burden and hunger. As soon as the wolf found his friend the dog, they talked about their conditions. Each confessed to the other what had happened to him. Despite the dog’s comfortable condition, when he invited the wolf to share in his work and prosperous life, the wolf refused strongly, for the reasons that will follow in the story. ...
One day, a farmer lived in a village near the forest. The farmer had a large garden, and in that garden was an ancient apple tree and many beautiful plants and flowers. Many pet animals lived in the garden. When the farmer was a small boy, he used to spend beautiful times with the apple tree, but now the tree had stopped producing apple fruits. The farmer thought it had become useless because it had remained for many years without bearing the delicious red apples. ...
There was a mouse named Airez who lived in a small house in the forest. One day, the mouse woke up shivering from the extreme cold. He got out of bed, put on heavy clothes, and went back to bed, but he still felt very cold. He got up again and put on his woolen hat. The mouse went back to sleep in his bed, but he felt he was still shivering from the severe cold. He looked at the clock and saw it was eight in the morning. Then he looked out the window and the sun wasn’t shining yet. Instead, he saw snow completely covering the window. The mouse realized that heavy snow had fallen the previous night. The mouse decided to go and make hot vegetable soup to warm up. ...
It is told that a cobbler named Asfour lived in the ancient city of Baghdad, and he had a wife named Jarada. She reminded him every day of his poverty and his inability to provide a more comfortable life for her. One day, while Jarada was walking in the market, she saw a lady wearing a luxurious robe, her fingers adorned with diamond rings, pearl necklaces hanging from her chest, gold earrings dangling from her ears, and a group of beautiful maidservants walking around her. ...
After Jolliver stayed at his home for a long time and did not sail for a while, the journey was in his house sailing in a natural way. But after that, because of the severe wind, the ship moved away from its land a lot and went into the sea for a period until the water became less on the ship. One day, the ship left Brobdingnag island, and the captain Jolliver with his group of men ordered to take the boat and go to the island to search for water, while Jolliver was standing at the ship’s door inside the island not seeing that the men had left him and taken the boat and moved away. When Jolliver descended from the ship, he found a tall man standing on the shore. ...