Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves – Part 2
(Tales from Arabian Nights)
Meanwhile, seeing the body of Kassim disappear, the leader realized that there were tow people who knew the secret. So he ordered one of his men to disguise himself and go into the town to find out.
The thief, befriended the shopkeepers. One day, the cobbler told him, ”Would you believe sir, I recently sewed up a man’s body!” the thief pushed a gold coin into the old man’s hand and told, “Oh! Please sir, lead me to his house.”
Although the old man was blindfolded when he went Ali Baba’s house, he could still make out the way. The thief immediately put a cross on the door.
A little later, Marjinah returned from the market and saw the cross mark on Ali Baba’s door. Sensing that something was wrong, she marked a cross on all the doors in the street.
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp – part 3
(A tale from the Arabian nights)
After a long time, from far away in Africa the wicked magician remembered Aladdin. He used his magic arts and discovered that Aladdin was instead of perishing miserably in the cave, had escaped, and had married a princess, with whom he was living in great wealth and honor. He knew that the poor tailor's son could only have achieved this by means of the magic lamp. He wanted to destroy Aladdin and retrieves the genie of the magic lamp.
One day he came to the city of Aladdin, he heard people talking everywhere about a marvelous palace. He used a trick and disguising himself as a merchant, he went to the city crying few old and new lamps in his shoulder. At that time, Aladdin had gone a-hunting for eight days, which gave the magician plenty of time. The magician went to the palace and crying, "New lamps for old!"
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp - part 2
(A Tale from the Arabian Nights)
One day Aladdin walked to the market he saw sultan’s daughter passing by on her elephant. Her name was jasmine. The princess was so lovely. She had long hair as black as the night. Her cheeks were rosy and her lips were red. The princess looked so beautiful and Aladdin fell in love with her at first sight. He vowed to make her his bride. When Aladdin reached home he told his mother about princess Jasmine. He told her mother, he loved the princess so deeply that he could not live without her, and wanted to merry the princess. On hearing this, Aladdin’s mother burst out laughing, but Aladdin at last prevailed upon her to go before the Sultan and carry his request. Aladdin’s mother wrapped the jewels; Aladdin had brought from the cave, in a silk cloth to gift to the sultan.
The grand-vizier (minister) and the lords of council had just gone in as she entered the hall and placed herself in front of the Sultan. He, however, took no notice of her. She went every day for a week, and stood in the same place. When the council broke up on the sixth day the Sultan asked to his vizier about the woman and told him to call the lady next day.
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp – part 1
(A tale from the Arabian nights)
There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin. He was a careless and idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. After the death of Aladdin’s father his mother was looked after him. He was so irresponsible that way his mother always shouted at him.
They were very poor as Aladdin did not like to work at all. One day as he played in the street with his friends, there came to him a strange looking man.
“I am your uncle son! What is your name?” said the man.
“Aladdin sir,” replied the boy.
“Take me home, I have brought rich gifts for all of you. Go to your mother and tell her I am coming." - told the stranger.
Aladdin was greatly surprised but the word “gifts” made him happy. On reaching home Aladdin quickly told his mother about the stranger.
His mother said,"Indeed, son, your father had a brother, but I always thought he was dead."
The Arabian
Nights stories are some of the world’s great treasures. These stories are existed for thousands of
years. It generally consists of tales from
Persia and Arabia.
The Arabian Nights is also known as
The 1001 Arabian Nights.
The Arabian
Nights include fairy tales,
romances, farces, legends and parables. These tales use a sweeping variety of settings and places, including Baghdad, Persia,
Cairo and Damascus,
as well as China, India and Turkey.
The stories are fanciful, sometimes are brutal
tales. The suggestion of the Arabian Nights is that a fantastically valuable
jewel exists, when it comes into contact with people, it actually changes their
lives. The jewels are the magnificently powerful art of these stories. There
may not be any better examples in the world of how art, trickery, magic and skill
can spin together and form a world that every reader wants to be interested. In
spite of the situation presented in any particular Arabian Nights story, the
theory contained in the story is that life is always worth living and that
human effort, along with human weakness, is a wonderful and fascinating thing
to behold. These stories form a strong connection between the ancient
civilizations of the East and those of the West.
