Two ant families lived in one of the large trees. One day, the weather became severely cold, and the rain was heavy, so the ant swarms hurried to their home and entered quickly into the large tree.
The rain continued to fall for several days, and the ants would not be able to go out to gather food for themselves. The little ant felt severe hunger, so she went crying to her mother from the severity of hunger. But her mother told her that all the food they had was gone.
But the ant decided to go to her neighbor to ask for some grains to feed to her hungry little one. The ant arrived at her neighbor’s house and knocked on the door. The ant Namula opened for her and asked her to give her some food for her children.
But the ant Namula told her that the bad weather had prevented her from going out to search for food, and what grains they had was also gone. However, the ant Namula was not telling the truth. Rather, she was keeping some grains in her house inside a small room, but she refused to give her neighbor the ant some food to feed her little ones. She kept what she had and thought only of herself.
The mother ant left sad, not knowing what to do. Her neighbor Namula did not give her food, and her little ones felt severe hunger. So she raised her hands toward the sky and supplicated to Allah to provide her with food for herself and her little ones.
Indeed, Allah answered the ant’s supplication, the rain stopped, and the sun shone. The ant praised and thanked Allah, and went out from the large tree gathering grains according to her need, and returned quickly to feed her little ones and store what remained.
After several months passed, the little ones of the ant Namula were hungry, as all the food they had was gone. So the ant Namula decided to go to her neighbor, the good ant, to ask her for some grains. Despite the fact that she had abandoned her neighbor the first time and did not give her any food for her little ones, the good ant had a different and great stance.
For the generous ant told her that the Prophet, may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, advised us about the neighbor. So the good ant invited her neighbor Namula to enter the house and take sufficient grains for herself and her little ones. The ant Namula felt extreme shame at the generosity of the good ant, and learned from her a useful lesson about generosity, cooperation, and benevolence.