There was a blind man named Mamoun living in a distant village at the outskirts of Morocco. He was alone in his small, beautiful house, as he was used to living alone without a wife or children. He had a beautiful garden behind his house that he tended to and cared for the beautiful trees growing in it. He planted it with delicious fruits and vegetables that he ate from.
One day, a postman came to him with a letter. The blind man said to him: Read what’s in it, for I am visually impaired and cannot look and read. The postman read it. It contained a will from a relative of his who had died and left him a lot of money in a bank in the city. The man was sad about the loss of his relative but happy with those funds that would help him with the hardship of life. This blind man had a neighbor, but he was a swindler and a thief who found nothing but evil in his neighbor.
One day, the blind man Mamoun went to a close friend of his in the village named Mazen. Mazen was a righteous man who used to help Mamoun, so he told him about the death of his relative who left him money. He asked him to travel with him to the city where the bank was to get those funds left by his relative. Indeed, the two went together to the city and got the money. The blind man returned with it to his house.
Mamoun decided to put those funds under a special tree in the garden behind his house so that no one would know about it and try to steal them from him. After several months, he wanted to take out the money from under the tree but didn’t find it. He kept searching everywhere in the garden but never found it. After a long time thinking about who might have stolen the money?
He reached the conclusion that it was likely his swindler neighbor, for perhaps he had seen him putting the money under the tree. The blind man thought of a clever trick to get his money back. He went to the house of the swindler and said to him: I have come to you to consult you about an important matter. His swindler neighbor said: Say what you have. The blind man Mamoun said: Today I received a lot of money, and it’s an extremely large sum. I want to keep it in a safe place. I have come to you to consult you: should I keep it with a man who keeps people’s trusts or keep it in my garden in a safe place?
The swindler said to himself: The blind man will surely hide those funds in the same old place in the garden, and I will get them too. So he said to him: Keep your money in the garden, for that is the best way. The blind man thanked him and told him that this was the wise opinion. In the evening, the swindler neighbor took the money he had stolen and decided to put it in its place under the tree in the garden so that the blind man Mamoun wouldn’t discover the matter of stealing that money and suspect him.
He said to himself: When Mamoun puts the new money, he will steal all the money at once. At dawn, the blind man went to that tree and took his money that the swindler had placed. This thief was watching the blind man and thought he had put a lot of money on top of the old money. After that, the blind man left and returned to his house.
The next day, the swindler neighbor sneaked at night to the garden of the blind man Mamoun to steal the money from the tree, in extreme joy and happiness because he would find a lot of money, but he didn’t find any money at all. All he found was a letter paper. The swindler opened it and read what was in it. It contained a message saying: (Whoever thinks with wisdom and intelligence cannot be deceived by fools).