The mother ant said to her sons and daughters, “Let us go inside, O my children, for the wind is strong in the outside and the weather is severe cold. Go into the house to the ant’s house. The elder son of the ant’s colony shouted and said, “Mother, wake up, O children, until you are not caught by the water and get sick in the rooms with warmth.” The mother said, “My God, I have carried all the sugar that we had of foods, and we did not remain anything for us.”
The small ant said, “I am吵ing, O mother. Where is the food?” Her smaller sister said, “I am also吵ing; I want food.” The mother said, “I will go out to search for food for you two. Do not go out of the house, O my children. There is not any food in this forest. I will return to the rock another time. When the wind subsides, I will go out again to search, if God wills.”
The mother ant went out and looked around, but did not find any food for the small ant that she had brought from the sugar. She asked God the Exalted, “We are吵ing and we do not have any food. What should I do, O my Lord?” A small stone fell on her from the clouds is the dew that the grasshoppers had brought for her. And she knocked on the door with her knocking and was telling her children that food that they had will last them several days until the rain stops and the sun shines. Then she gathered foods and thanked for them again, and she said to the grasshoppers, “These foods will last us several days, and she said to the grasshoppers, ‘Let us go to sleep for you have tired a lot.’” But her lazy sister said, “We are吵ing, O mother, because we do not have any foods, O grasshoppers.”
And after the sun shone, the mother ant thanked God the Exalted and said, “The rain has stopped, and the sun has shone from new. I gathered foods and thanked for them again and said, ‘These foods will last us several days.’” And she said to the grasshoppers, “Let us go to sleep, for we have tired a lot.” But her lazy sister said, “We are吵ing, O mother, because we do not have any foods, O grasshoppers.”
And after the sun shone, the mother ant thanked God the Exalted and said, “The rain has stopped, and the sun has shone from new. I gathered foods and thanked for them again, and said, ‘These foods will last us several days.’” And she said to the grasshoppers, “Let us go to sleep, for we have tired a lot.’” But her lazy sister said, “We are吵ing, O mother, because we do not have any foods, O grasshoppers.” And she realized that she was greedy.