Ali Baba and The 40 Thieves
Once upon a time, in a city surrounded by desert, there lived two brothers
named Ali Baba and Kasim. The two brothers have very different traits and
characters. Kasim, his older brother, was a jealous, greedy and arrogant
person. Meanwhile, Ali Baba is a friendly, simple and hard-working
person.
After the death of their father, greedy Eunuchs married a rich woman and
they always lived in luxury. Ali Baba married a poor woman and decided to
work as a wood cutter. During Eunuch's life with his wife, he always spent
their father's possessions, and he continued his father's business as a merchant,
while Ali Baba sold the firewood he collected from the forest to make a living
with his wife.
One day, when Ali Baba was collecting firewood in the forest, he saw a
gang of thieves on horseback. Ali immediately hid behind a tall bush so as
not to be seen by the thieves. Because if he was seen, he could have been
robbed and even died at their hands. Ali hid and saw them stopped in front
of a stone cave. Then the thieve's head said, "Open it... The door..!!"
and the cave door opened. Ali was surprised because he saw a lot of gold
in the cave. It turned out that the robbers hid their looted treasure in
the cave. And after putting their loot into the cave, the chief thieve said, "Close... The door..!!" then immediately the door was closed. The thieves used those magic words to open or close the cave door.
The thieves left the cave to look for loot again. After they left, Ali
Baba approached the cave wall, and said, "Open... The door..!!" the cave
door opened. Ali was surprised to find a lot of gold in the cave, like a
high mountain and immediately took some sacks of gold to take home. When
he took the gold, he planned to distribute some gold to his neighbors, one
of whom was named Aisha.
When he got home, Ali Baba told his wife what had happened and distributed
some gold coins to his neighbors and Aisha. Aisha was very happy and
thankful to Ali Baba.
Because there was too much gold, and they couldn't count it, Ali Baba's
wife borrowed the scales from her brother's Eunuch wife. Curious about
what Ali Baba's wife would weigh, the eunuch's wife put wax liquid on her
scale so that something was attached to the scale. And that's right, when
the scales were returned, there was a shiny layer like a layer of gold
coins.
So Eunuch's wife immediately told her husband that Ali Baba had a lot of
gold in his house.
The eunuch rushed to Ali Baba's house and asked where the gold came from,
saying, "Where did you get some of the sacks of gold, did they belong to
our father?"
Ali Baba replied, "No,,". Then Kasim asked again, "If not, then where did
you get it? It would be nice for a younger brother to distribute some of
the gold to his brother."
And Ali Baba replied, "I got these golds from a cave in the forest, and
these golds did not belong to our father but belonged to some thieves."
Hearing this, Eunuch's greed appeared, and he asked Ali Baba to show him
the way to the cave. Arriving at the cave, Ali Baba told him how to enter
the cave and Kasim went inside. Before Ali Baba returned home, he told the
magic words to open and close the cave door to Kasim.
Because of Kasim's greedy nature, he was lulled by the amount of gold in
the cave. He bathed himself in a pile of gold, until the afternoon when he
wanted to take the gold home he forgot how to open the door of the cave.
He was trapped in the cave all day.
Unfortunately for Kasim, the thieves came and saw Kasim in the cave. "My
goodness... forgive me, I'm just lost in this cave" Kasim said as he had begging the thieve's head for mercy. But because the eunuchs knew
where their treasure was stored, they were killed and their bodies were
dismembered in the cave.
Eunuch's wife who was waiting at home began to worry because Kasim did not
come home. Finally he asked Ali Baba for help to follow to the cave where
the treasure was stored. Ali Baba immediately went there. There she was
very sad to see her brother lying in a lifeless condition with a
dismembered body. Ali Baba brought Eunuch's body to his wife, Eunuch's
wife wept loudly seeing that her husband had died. Before Kasim was
buried, Ali Baba took his brother's body to a healer to sew his brother's
body together. After finishing sewing, Ali rewarded the tailor with a few
gold coins.
Elsewhere, in the treasure cave, the robbers were shocked to find that
Eunuch's corpse was gone." Unmistakably, there are others who know the
secrets about where our treasures are stored. Let's go find him and kill
him." The thieve chief said. They began to go around the city looking for
that person. When they meet a healer, they ask." Has anyone been rich
lately?"
"I am that person, because after stitching the wound of a woodcutter's
corpse, I got paid gold coins. And made me a rich man."
"What? Corpse? Who asked you to do that? Please deliver me to her. I will
give you money later." The thieve chief said.
After receiving money from the thieves, the healer then drove the thieves to Ali Baba's house. The thieves immediately put a cross on the door of
Ali's house." I will report to the chairman, and later in the evening we
will come to kill him." One of the thieves said. Ali's neighbor,
Aisha, who had just returned from shopping, overheard and saw the
conversation.
At night, Ali Baba's house was visited by five thieves disguised as oil
traders and begged to stay one day at his house because it was late at
night. The kind Ali invited his guests into the house and treated them
well. Ali Baba served them food to eat, and prepared a bed for them to
sleep. Ali Baba did not know the faces of the thieves so Ali only
considered them guests who wanted to spend the night in his house. But
Aisha, Ali's neighbor who was outside the house, saw and recognized the
faces of the thieves. He immediately asked for the help of the young men
in the village to help Ali who was in danger. So that the robbers would
not be suspicious, Aisyah then disguised herself as a dancer. She left and
went into Ali's house to dance. While Ali, his wife and guests were
enjoying Aisha's dance, young men and village leaders were waiting outside
for Aisha's gesture. While dancing, Aisha served wine to the robber's head
until she almost got drunk. The thieve's head was very fond of Aisha's
dance and drank the wine she served. Finally the thieve's head was half
drunk, and in that moment Aisha threw a knife at the chest of the Chief thieves. The throw stabbed the thieve in the chest, and as a signal to the
young men outside to rush inside to catch the other four thieves.
At first Ali Baba and his wife were very surprised, before Ali Baba
asked. Aisha opened her disguise and immediately told all she saw and
heard to Ali Baba and his wife.
"Aisha and brothers, we say a big thank you for saving our lives. If you
hadn't helped us, we might have died at the hands of the robbers," Ali
Baba said moved.
"You're welcome, Ali, you often help us when we are in trouble." Aisha
said. After all had passed, Ali distributed the thieve' treasures in the
cave to the poor people in their village who were in dire need.
The lesson we can take from the story of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves:
1. Do not have the same envy, greed and greed as Eunuchs do, because
greed and greed will only harm oneself because you feel less satisfied
with anything.
2. Always be grateful for whatever we have now
3. Do good to others, then your kindness will one day be repaid in a
way we did not expect
0 Response to "Ali Baba and The 40 Thieves "
Post a Comment