There lived among the Arabs a wise and fair man, whose advice everyone always obeyed. Once, where he lived, all the dogs died in one night. The next morning people came to the sage and told about what had happened.
“Nothing, everything will be fine,” he replied.
The next night, all the loud roosters in the village died. Again in the morning people came to the sage, and again he answered:
- And this is for the better.
- Strange! - the people objected. - The dogs protected us, the roosters announced the onset of morning with their singing. What good is it that they are gone now?
“Who knows, who knows,” the sage answered evasively.
On the third night, people in the village began to light a fire, but it did not light up.
- What kind of trouble happened? “We can’t understand,” they begged.
At this time, the enemy army attacked that country, plundered, plundered and burned the captured villages. When the enemies approached the village, where all the dogs and roosters had recently died, the commander was surprised:
“No light is visible, no dogs bark, no roosters crow.” There are probably no people here either. Empty village, empty houses. What should we do here?
With this the enemies left. But the village remained safe and sound.
It turned out that the sage was telling the truth: “Every cloud has a silver lining.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru