In ancient times and ages past, there was a girl of extreme gentleness and beauty named Rawan. Rawan was alone with her parents, and she was the one who stayed up attending to their comfort. She would prepare breakfast for them in the morning, then her father would go to work. Then Rawan would start arranging and organizing the house’s affairs and its cleanliness. Days passed one after another until she became a young woman. Despite her extreme beauty, no one proposed to her.
Her parents felt a lot of sadness and pain about this matter. Rawan, like any girl, dreamed of a knight who would take her on his horse and she would bear the children she had always dreamed of. One day, the father felt his hour was approaching and didn’t stop thinking about his daughter and her fate after him and his wife.
When the illness intensified on him and he couldn’t move, the father called his daughter and told him about his golden ring that fulfills wishes. He asked Rawan to search for it and use it in times of difficulty, as his days had become numbered, and he didn’t know what would happen to his daughter and his wife after him. Rawan’s father died, and she and her mother grieved over him severely.
Rawan tried to search for the magic ring without success. One day, an old man knocked on their house door. Rawan opened the door for him and asked him who he was. He told her he was Salem, her father’s friend since childhood, and he had learned of his death and came to fulfill his trust as he had promised. Rawan asked him if the trust was the magic ring. Salem told her that he indeed carried the magic ring with him.
But she couldn’t take it except after searching for a gold ingot found in her house in one of four similar boxes, and they had only one key. He also told her she must be careful, as each box contains something very dangerous for her. There’s a box containing the gold ingot, a box containing a mouse, a box containing poisonous snakes, and a box containing scorpions. She must be extremely careful while opening the boxes so no harm happens to her.
Rawan took the box key and started searching until she found the boxes hidden in the house garden. The time came to open the required box, so Rawan decided to use her mind to know which of the boxes contained the gold ingot. Rawan brought her ear close to the boxes until she settled that there was one of the four boxes that didn’t make any sounds, and when moving it, she heard the sound of something solid inside. Rawan decided to open it and found the gold ingot. She immediately took it to her father’s friend Salem’s house. Salem said to her: Well done, Rawan. Here is the golden ring; it has become your possession. Wear it on your finger and wipe it twice and ask for whatever you want.
Rawan wore it, wiped it twice, and wished to live a happy life with a righteous husband and righteous offspring who would fill her world with love and joy. Rawan’s wish was fulfilled, and she lived a beautiful life with her small family in a beautiful house as she had wished.