The story of the three commandments of a wise father to his son and three daughters
In a Bedouin area, a father is dying. This father had three daughters and one son. When the man felt his death approaching, he asked his son to approach him to advise him. The father’s commandments to his son were very strange.
The father said, “My son, I recommend you three things. First, don’t stay close to the sheikh of the tribe. Second, don’t give your secret to anyone. Third, don’t marry your sister to a rich man.” and unconvincing
Time passed, and the young man’s sisters grew up. He presented the letter to them, so he married one of his sisters to a rich man from the tribe, and married the other to a poor man from another tribe. .
The sheikh of the tribe had an ostrich that he loved, and the young man's sister was sick and suffering from constant pain in her leg bones, so the young man stole the ostrich of the sheikh of the tribe and gave it to his sister and told her to extract ostrich fat from it because it is useful in treating joint pain, and he asked her not to tell anyone that she had an ostrich because he stole it from The house of the chief of the tribe.
The sheikh of the tribe learned that his ostrich had been stolen, so he got angry and went to one of the fortune-tellers to tell him who had stolen his ostrich. The sheikh of the tribe was very angry if someone dared to steal him and diminish his prestige, but the fortune-teller did not know anything, as she was just a swindler who fed on people's ignorance, but the fortune-teller was sharp. Intelligence, so she spread in the tribe that she suffers from bone pain and wants to buy ostrich fat for a large sum. The young man's sister greeded for money and went to the divination and gave her ostrich fat. Here the divination told the tribe's sheikh about the woman's condition, so he ordered him to be imprisoned.
The sheikh of the tribe ordered the men to bring the young man after he interrogated her and learned that her brother was the one who brought her the ostrich. His father not to give his secret to anyone.
The young man returned to his home and began to think about how he would get the ten camels, as he only had one camel. His sister's rich husband, and the rich man saw the camel, which appeared to be ill. He rebuked his wife's brother that he had brought his sick camel with him and asked him to keep it away from the rest of the camels so that they would not get sick like his camel.
The young man drove the camel away and returned to his sister's husband and asked him to help him and give him ten camels, but the rich man pretended to be poor, and asked him to leave and did not give him a bad, weak and weak sheep.
The young man went to his sister's poor husband and removed his camel from the rest of the camels, so the poor man was amazed at the young man's work and asked him to bring his camel closer to the rest of the camels of the tribe to eat with them. She helps him because they are richer than him, and indeed the poor man was able to collect ten camels and gave them to the young man who brought them back to the sheikh of the tribe.
learned from the story
To take from the commandments of adults, as they have more experience than us, and to always use reason in all our affairs.
