Law is equal for all
Long ago a sultan named Giasuddin Azam Shah ruled Bengal. Sonargoan was his capital. He was very righteous and kind. Very often he used to go hunting. Once when he shot aiming a deer, the arrow missed and hit a son of a window. At this the widow got pain by heart and went to the judge to present her complaints against the sultan and prayed for justice. The judge could not avoid the urge of the widow. He thought, “If he does justice, this will go against the Sultan; on the contrary if he does not do this, he will be guilty of injustice to the widow and Allah." At last he fixed a decision to summon the sultan before the court. The judge charged him with killing the widow's son. The Sultan confessed his guilt and compensated the loss of widow. The judge thanked the Sultan. The Sultan also thanked the judge.
Devotion of Bayzid Bostami to mother
One night Bayazid Bostami was studding in his room. His ill mother was sleeping in the adjacent room. Suddenly she woke up at late night and felt thirsty, but she could not feel easy to fetch a glass of water. Bayazid was then asked to give her water. He went to the kitchen with a glass to fetch water but unluckily the pitcher was empty. There was no nearby well. So he went to a remote well with the pitcher. He filled it and came back. With a glass of water he entered his mother’s room and saw her sleeping deeply. Bayazid grew conscious not to wake his mother up because this would be indisposed for her mother. On the contrary whenever she woke up, she might feel troublesome if she didn’t get water. Finally he kept standing near his mother’s head with the glass of water in his hand. In the morning his mother woke up and saw him still standing with the glass. She got surprised seeing child’s devotion to mother. She drank the water and blessed for him to God. Later this Bayazid became a famous man of God.
Moral: Devotion to mother is the devotion to God.
Wisdom of a judge
Once upon a time their lived a rich man. He bought a necklace for his wife. Unfortunately the necklace was lost. In the meantime a few servants passed by the house. The house husband suspected that any of them might steal the necklace. He lodged a complaint with the judge against the servant. The court brought a charge of theft against them and they were summoned to the court in due date. But they did not confess the guilt, one the contrary they raised a strong protest against the charge. The wise judge took three sticks, gave them and said that the stick of the servant who stole the necklace will be one inch enlarged. They also ordered to submit the sticks to the court next day. The servant who stole made his stick shortened by one inch. Next day the sticks were submitted to the judge. The judge noticed that one stick was shortened by an inch and two other were as they had been. Thus the judge detected the thief and took him in imprisonment.
Moral: Guilt cannot be concealed.
A fox and a crow
Among the birds, the crow is well known as a famous snatcher. One day a crow snatched a piece of meat from a butcher and flew away. It sat on a branch on the top of a big tree. In the mean time a deceitful fox was passing by the tree and had a look up at the crow. Its tongue started water and it held a desire to make food of the piece. But there was no possible way to reach it for the crow. So, it started flattering, “Hi, Mr. Crow, your tone is very lovely. Would you please sing just a bit for me?" The crow became over whelmed with his flattery and set its mind to sing. As soon as it opened its mouth to sing, the piece of the meat fell down to the grownd, the fox fetched it and went away happily. The crow had nothing but great sadness.
Moral: The fool loses all.
A goose laid golden eggs
There lived a poor farmer in a village. One day he bought a goose from market. The goose laid a golden egg a day. He used to sell the eggs in the market and maintained his family comfortably. In a very short time he became solvent. The farmer grew greedy. He held a desire to be rich quickly. He thought that if he would cut the belly of the goose, he could collect all the eggs it had and sell in the market. One morning he took a sharp knife and cut its belly, but found no eggs. Besides, he lost the goose. The farmer became very sad and regretted, “ Oh, I will never have the golden eggs.” He lost his fate.
Moral: Grasp all, lose all.
A woodcutter and his axe
Once upon a time there lived a poor woodcutter in a village. He cut wood from the forest and sold in the market. Thus he earned his livelihood and lived hand to mouth. One day when he was cutting wood, unfortunately the axe was slipped out into the river beside him. At that moment he had nothing to do to retrieve the axe, but it was the only means for him to earn. He got despaired and wept bitterly for the loss of his earning. The goddess of water looked at it and grew sympathetic for the woodcutter. She appeared before him and asked to know why he grieved. The woodcutter told her of his great loss. She took pity on him and made a dive into the water. She fetched a golden axe and offered it to him. But he refused because this was not his own axe. The goddess again dived and took a silvery axe. At this time he did the same. She dived for third time and fetched the cutter’s own axe. He became pleased and wiped tears flooding his check. He took the axe from the goddess. The goddess became cheered at his ungreediness and rewarded him two other axes.
Moral: Honesty is the best policy.
Truthfulness has its reward.
Truthfulness has its reward.
