Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

In the old days, in one of the faraway countries, there was a good-hearted, poor man who spent his day by being a woodcutter. Every day early, he prayed the dawn prayer, present and carrying his axe, and heading towards the forest, in which he cut trees and pruned them, and sold firewood that he extracted from his work. hard; This man was known as Ali Baba, and he had one full-brother named Qasim, who was well off and had no financial problems, yet he was very greedy and greedy.

One day, while “Ali Baba” was in the forest in a remote place, he noticed some knights approaching him, he became worried and climbed to the top of a tree, and from afar he went after these knights and found their number forty.

He did not make a sound from the severity of his fear, so that his poor donkey hid behind some bushes, “Ali Baba” remained silent until the forty thieves stopped near a large cave in the heart of a mountain, the eldest of them came down and said in a loud voice: “Open, Sesame,” and behold, a large rock with a thunderous voice It opens, it was a cave and it opens with this magic word. The thieves entered, and each of them carried a bag that seemed heavy.

Ali Baba said to himself: “It must be the loot that they collect from our country and the surrounding countries, so they collect them and put them in this magical cave.”

After a while, the forty thieves came out from inside the cave, and again the gang leader shouted loudly, saying: “Stop, Sesame.”

As soon as they were far away and out of sight, “Ali Baba” descended from the top of the tree, headed towards the cave, and said in a loud voice: “Open, Sesame.” The ground shook from under his feet and the large boulder shifted from in front of the cave opening. Ali Baba entered the cave and was astonished by the The abundance of gold and jewelry he found inside, he took a bag full of gold coins and left, put it on the back of his donkey, and said in a loud voice: “Shut up, Sesame.”

He returned with joy to his wife, who was very pleased to see the gold, but she also asked him in wonder and confusion: “Where do we have these many gold coins?!

Her husband told her the full story that happened to him, and his wife said: “Then these treasures are not ours. I think it is better for us to bury them in the garden of our house so that we do not get hurt and we do not covet them until we find a solution for them.”

Her husband, "Ali Baba" agreed with her, but he suggested to her that they weigh the gold before burying it, so she told him that she would go to his brother's house, "Qasim" next door to them and borrow the scales from his wife.

Indeed, I went to “Qasim’s” house and knocked on the door, and when his wife came out, I asked her to borrow the scale, and due to his brother’s unseen curiosity, he put some glue under the scale so that he knows through it what he wants to weigh his brother.

After “Ali Baba” and his wife weighed the gold, they dug a huge hole secretly and put the gold inside it, and the wife of “Ali Baba” returned the scale to Qasim’s wife, and he picked it up from the hand of his wife “Qasim” eagerly, and as soon as he found a piece of gold at the bottom until he went crazy And he began to wonder in astonishment: “Where did this poor, destitute woodcutter get so many gold coins that he weighs them?”

He could not resist his curiosity, so he immediately went to his brother to interrogate him and tell him about the nature of his obtaining the gold coins. He knocked on the door eagerly, and spoke to his brother in a threatening tone. At first, “Ali Baba” did not want to reveal his great secret, but he would not lie to anyone, no matter what it cost him. The matter, “Qasim” knew how true he was, so he made him tell him his secret.

Qasim’s eyes flashed and Ali Baba noticed this, so he warned him of the dire consequences if he thought of going there, but Qasim was arrogant, arrogant, and did not accept advice from others: “You know, Ali Baba, you will remain poor and destitute throughout your life, because you are Coward; As for me, I am brave and I am not afraid of risks.”

He dragged two donkeys and took them to the cave, and when he arrived, he said: “Open Sesame.” So he opened the cave’s door with this magical phrase, and entered “Qasim,” who saw what made his mind budge from his position and his heart dancing with joy, he rolled over the gold and fluctuated between jewels and pearls.

He began to collect in the shrines filled with gold and jewels, and brought them near the door, and as soon as he finished collecting a lot, he wanted to get out, but luck was not on his side and his memory betrayed him by completely forgetting the magic password; He tried and tried in the familiar words close to the password, but he did not succeed, and suddenly the door of the cave opened, and forty thieves entered and found him in front of them!

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He distanced himself from the accusation and attached it to his brother “Ali Baba” in the hope that he would find salvation in his lifetime.

Qasim: “I am not a thief, I am just a messenger to my brother Ali Baba who taught the magic word, so he sent me here to steal all the precious treasures and bring them back to him.”

At this time, Qasim's wife was worried and panicked at her husband, so she went to his brother's house to complain about what had happened to her. She suggested Ali Baba's husband that they all return to Qasim's house and wait for him, and while they were leaving his house they found a strange sign on the door of the house of "Ali Baba", His wife, with her blazing intelligence, realized that this sign was the work of the forty thief gang.

So she made the same sign on all the houses near and around her house so that the thieves got confused, and indeed she succeeded in that, as in the middle of the night the thieves came to kill “Ali Baba” and be able to bury their secret with him, but they came back empty-handed because of what the smart wife did.

And the next morning, their leader disguised himself as a merchant of oil for food, and he had brought with him forty large barrels. He made his thirty-nine men hide inside the barrels. As for the forty barrel, he put oil in it. He asked about “Ali Baba” until he reached him, and there he was delusional that he was a merchant coming. From a far country, and he wants to take home his goods, and he gave him a barrel of oil as a gift for a beautiful thing he made with him.

Before his hospitality, "Ali Baba" with the same contentment, and invited him to food; But his wife was very smart, so she inspected the barrels and realized all her doubts and fears, so she boiled the oil and put it on the thieves in the barrels, and they burned and died in their place. As for their leader, Ali Baba killed him when they were about to kill him.

Ali Baba went to the cave and took out his brother Qassem; And he took the treasures that were inside and distributed them to all the countries. Prosperity prevailed, and everyone was blessed to live a happy life full of luxury.

Qasim learned a hard lesson in the consequences of his greed and greed.