Chapter 78 A Tale of the Dumb, the Donkey, and the Liar

Once upon a time, a fool was often deceived because he was too honest.Once, the stupid man led his donkey out to graze. On the way, he ran into two seasoned liars.When the liar saw him dumbfounded, he became ill-intentioned. "I'm going to trick that donkey from his master," said one of the tricksters to his companion. "How do you lie?" asked another. The liar looked confident and said, "Just watch!" So the liar walked up to the donkey, secretly took off the bridle, and put it on his own head, but left the donkey behind to be led by another liar.And so the liar walked behind the fool like a donkey in a bridle.

After walking for a while, he guessed that another liar had already led the donkey away, so he stopped and refused to go any further. The stupid man suddenly felt that he couldn't pull the rope, and the donkey seemed to refuse to go forward. He felt strange. When he looked back, he saw that the bridle was actually put on a person's head. He couldn't help being surprised, and asked in surprise: "Hey! What are you?" The liar laughed secretly, and said: "I am your donkey! Oh, you don't know, I have a strange experience. I have an upright and pious mother who is already old. She saw me drunk once. She told me piously: 'My child, this is a sin. You must confess to Allah Almighty.' But instead of listening, I beat her with my hands. In this way, she got angry and begged Allah Almighty to punish her. Me. I was punished and turned into a donkey, and I have been suffering ever since. To this day, my mother thinks that I have been punished enough, she is merciful, and asks Allah for me to forgive my sins. Therefore, I regained my human appearance from a donkey, and became an upright human being."

Hearing this, the fool was both surprised and deeply ashamed, and sighed, "Ah! It's all up to Allah the Almighty God to save you! My brother, I have been riding you and making you do heavy work, which is too much. It shouldn’t be. However, I swear in the name of Allah, I don’t know anything about your situation. Up to now, I can only ask you to forgive me for riding and enslaving you.” After confessing to the swindler, the fool left the swindler in a dazed state of despair, and went home with bowed head. The stupid man's wife wondered at his appearance and asked, "Why are you sad? Has something bad happened?

oh!Where's our donkey? " The fool then told his wife from beginning to end what he had heard from the liar. When the stupid man's wife heard this, she also felt unhappy, thinking that she had indeed done something inhumane.So, she sincerely repented, hoping to make up for her mistakes. After a while, the wife saw that the stupid man was still discouraged, staying at home and doing nothing, and she couldn't help being impatient, so she said to her husband, "You can't keep doing your job like this. Otherwise, you can go to the street and buy another one." Let the donkey go home and do his work."

The stupid man listened to his wife and went to the market.He took a fancy to a donkey that was about to be sold at a glance, but after looking carefully, he realized that it was the donkey he used to have.Surprised, he approached the donkey, put his mouth close to the donkey's ear, and whispered: "You unlucky fellow! Don't let me be fooled this time. Who made you drunk again and beat your mother? I won't buy you and make you human again." After speaking, he walked away without looking back.