Abbas was a poor fellah. (Fellah - peasant, farmer). He worked all day long to earn food for himself and his family, and in his free hours he kept thinking about how to find a treasure that would save him from want.
One very hot day, Abbas was working in the field as usual. Feeling very tired, he sat down under a tree and began to dream: “If Allah gave me magical power so that I could turn everything I touch into gold, then I would get rid of hard work and live in complete contentment.”
And suddenly he heard a voice:
- Oh Abbas! Now you will get what you really want! Place your hand on any object and it will immediately turn into pure gold.
Abbas couldn't believe his ears. But still he reached down to the ground and took a small pebble. As soon as he touched it, the pebble immediately turned into pure gold. Then Abbas touched another stone - and it also became gold.
Abbas was very happy and thought: “Now I will go to the city and turn dust and stones into gold... Then I will buy a lot of land, build a palace on the river bank and surround it with a huge garden... I will buy beautiful horses and dress in luxurious clothes...”
Here he wanted to get up, but, feeling very tired, hungry and thirsty, he realized that he would not be able to walk.
“I’ll eat what I brought with me from home this morning,” he decided and extended his hand to breakfast, which lay in a small bag near the tree. Abbas took the cake, but when he put it in his mouth, he felt metal. And the bread turned into gold!
There was still an onion in the bag. Abbas hastily grabbed it. Imagine his confusion when the onion became a gold bar that he could not eat!
Abbas was terribly scared. How will he drink and eat now? How will it be to live in this world of gold bars? After all, he will very soon die of hunger and thirst, without even using the gold, which is easily given to him.
So Abbas thought, imagining how he would die in agony from hunger and thirst, since everything he touched turned into gold.
But then he opened his eyes, saw himself perched in the shade of a tree and realized that he was dreaming. A deep sigh of relief escaped his chest; as if a mountain had been lifted from his shoulders.
“Thank Allah it was all just a dream!” - he said.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru