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.
