Sow good, even on an unworthy soil; for it will not be lost wherever it is sown – one of the greatest messages by Queen Shahrazad
CONTINUOUS CLIFFHANGER
Queen Shahrazad is telling stories for her life because the king’s modus operandi (method of operating) is to marry a lady and then in the morning execute her. Shahrazad each night tells a compelling story but does not finish it and she tells the king that there is an even better story tomorrow night.
MERCHANT MESSOn Day One – she starts with the story of a merchant who unintentionally killed the son of a Jinn. The Jinn is going to kill the merchant when three sheikhs pass by. They bargain with the Jinn that if they each tell a compelling story the Jinn would give up one third of his claim to each sheikh. The first two sheikhs' stories are so wondrous that the Jinn has now given up two-thirds of his claim. Now there is just the last sheikh.
MULE MADNESSThe mule is not just a mule but the wife of the third sheikh.
BLACK HOLE
The wife became involved with a black slave. On discovery by the sheikh, she took a mug of water, having uttered a spell over it, sprinkled him, and transformed him into a dog.
MAGICAL END
The dog ran to the shop of a butcher, whose daughter saw him and being skilled in enchantment, restored him to a man again.
DIVINE RETRIBUTION
She instructed him to enchant his wife how we see her now.
THE THIRD SHEIKH’S REQUEST
“Now I hope you will give me a third of the merchant’s offence.”
REQUEST WITH A MESSAGE
He ended his request with an adage saying that the person who said it was divinely gifted: Sow good, even on an unworthy soil; for it will not be lost wherever it is sown.
JINNI JOY
The Jinni so shook with delight that he remitted the remaining third of his claim to the merchant’s blood.
THANKSGIVINGThe merchant thanked the sheikhs. They congratulated him on his safety and everyone went on their way.
THE BEST IS YET TO COME
Queen Shahrazad is fighting for her life so she has to talk up what she is doing. She tells her king: “This story is not more wonderful than the story of the fisherman.” The king wanted to know about this story – TO BE CONTINUED.
THE MORAL OF THIS STORY
Surprisingly the third sheikh's story is brief but contains one of the wisest adages that wherever you are sow good and even if sown on what seems to be unworthy ground it is still worth sowing. Sowing good always is worthwhile even if it does not seem that way, given how everything appears at that point of time.
- Jinn from the One thousand and one nights.
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