Story Book : the smart counselor

It is narrated that a consultant entered the king and found him immersed in thinking, so he asked him about what matters to him, and he said: I want to impose a sugar tax of 10% to finance my depots that are almost empty, and I think about how people will accept this decision

The adviser said: Leave it to me, Moulay. The chancellor gathered his aides, and asked them to send rumors in the markets that the ruler intended to impose a 50% tax on sugar, meat, dates, wheat and barley .. The people broke up, and began criticizing the matter publicly, and they started expressing their discontent and dissatisfaction .. The agents were reporting what is happening in the markets And what the general says to the consultant first-hand

In the second week, the counselor asked his aides to broadcast a rumor confirming the first rumor, and added to it that some advisers were the ones who advised the ruler about this matter, and that the decision would be issued very soon, people turned over the matter, and said: the tax is very high, and it is unfair to pay all of these. Varieties, if they were 10 or even 15%, or if they were on one class, the matter would be

Then the chancellor went to the governor and said: my king now You order the tax and let me rewrite the decision

The counselor wrote: In response to the desires of our noble people, and down to their opinion, we decided not to listen to bad advisors who sought to overburden the citizens with many taxes, and we were satisfied with imposing a simple tax of 12% on sugar only And do not burden them with outrageous taxes.

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Story Book : The merchant and the shepherd

There was a simple man looking after a sheep for one of the rich and taking a daily fee of five dirhams, and one day the rich came to the shepherd to tell him that he had decided to sell the sheep because he wanted to travel and therefore he dispensed with his services and wanted to reward him and gave him a large amount of money, but the sponsor refused this and preferred his wages The little one that you used to take in return for his service every day and who sees that he represents the amount of his effort ..
Faced with the amazement and surprise of the rich man, the shepherd took the five dirhams and locked back to his home, after which he was looking for work, but he was unsuccessful and he kept the five dirhams and did not spend it in the hope that it would be a help to him one day ..
There was a merchant man in that village who gave people money to travel to bring them goods, and when it was time for him to travel, people came to him as usual, giving him money and recommending him on different goods. The shepherd thought to give him the five dirhams, perhaps he would buy him something to benefit him, so he came in who attended and when the people left On behalf of the merchant, the shepherd approached him and gave him five dirhams. The merchant ridiculed him and said to him, laughing: What will I get for you for five dirhams?
The shepherd answered: Take it with you and anything you find for five dirhams. Bring it to me.
The merchant was surprised and said to him: I am going to big merchants who do not sell anything for five dirhams, they sell valuables.
However, the shepherd insisted on that and in front of his insistence the merchant agreed, ..
The merchant went into his business and began to buy for people what they asked him each according to his need and when he finished and began to review his accounts he only had five dirhams that belonged to the sponsor and he found nothing of value that he could buy for five dirhams only a fat cat that the owner was selling to get rid of him so the merchant bought it and closed due to His country ..
On his way back, he passed by a village, and he wanted to rest in it. When he entered it, the villagers noticed the cat he was in. They asked him to sell them to him and the merchant was surprised by the village people insistence on the need to sell them to the cat. He asked them, and they told him that they suffer from the large number of mice that eat their agricultural crops and do not keep anything for them. Some time ago, they were looking for a cat, so perhaps it would help them eliminate it, and expressed their willingness to buy the cat with its weight in gold. After the merchant made sure of their sincerity, he agreed to sell the cat with his weight in gold, and so it was ..
The merchant returned to his country and the people welcomed him and gave each of them his trust until the shepherd's turn came, so the merchant took him aside and swore an oath to God to tell him about the secret of the five dirhams and from where did you get it The shepherd surprised him from the merchant's words, but he told him the full story then the merchant accepted the shepherd crying and saying that God May He reward you with good because you are satisfied with your provision

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Story Book : the woodcutter and the young man

While woodcutter used to log and collect firewood and make piles of him before taking him to his home, if a young man ran and gasped for fatigue, then when he reached him he asked him to hide him in one of the piles of firewood so that his enemies who were in his footprint would not see him wanting to kill him.

The woodcutter said: Enter that large pile, and he entered and covered it with some firewood so that he could see nothing of it. And the lumberjack started cutting and collecting the wood .

After a little while the woodcutter saw two men rushing toward him, and when he arrived, he asked him about a young man who passed by him shortly before and described it to him. If the young man himself hiding him with him, he said to them: Yes, I saw him and hid it from you in that heap. His heart stood in fear and panic when he heard the lumberjack tell them where he was.

Then one of them said to the other: This malicious woodcutter wants us to search for him in this heap of big firewood to give him an opportunity to escape, do not believe him, it is not reasonable to hide it and then indicate it, so let's hurry to catch up with him. And they walked on their ways quickly .

When he moved away and disappeared from view, the young man came out of the pile of wood, surprisingly surprised. !
You have no mercy ... Is not ... Is not ...?

And the woodcutter said: O my son, if lying saves you, the truth is saved. By God, if you lied to them, they would search for you and find you, then they would kill you, walk on the blessing of God and you
Lying, and I know that honesty is the path of salvation.

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The Lion and the Hyena

He says that a lion and a hyena went out to hunt together and the lion was eating the whole catch, and left to the hyena only the bones, so the hyena thought in a trick to take his right and when he hunted a deer the hyena said: I do not know how we can cook this deer, the lion said: And why do we cook it? We will eat it raw, the hyena said: No, this is not the way we eat this deer, and then the hyena pointed to the sun that was approaching the earth at sunset and said: Look, here is a fire burning to the west, go to it, lion, bring us a torch from it to roast this meat on it.

The lion quickly ran towards the sun until it was completely turned away and the disc of fire that was running towards him disappeared, in the meantime the hyena had eaten the whole deer alone and left only its tail, and took the hyena tail and fixed it in the ground, and after a short time the lion came back and asked the hyena: Where is the fire? Lion replied: While I was running on the ground, I couldn't bring it. The hyena said: When you were running, the gazelle also disappeared in the ground, and it is no longer visible except his tail, you must hurry and hold the tail well, or he will disappear too.

The lion hurryup and hold the tail and he's pulling him strongly, but he only won the tail. The hyena said: You are such an idiot, you have let the fire escape from you underground, and yet you did not learn how to keep the deer, so I cut his tail and let him escape also underground!! The lion stood staring bewildered hungry in the severed tail while the hyena was trying to hide his laugh as he said to himself: This is the first time I was able to get my right, because I knew how to use the trick to beat the owner of the bats and power.

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