In Persia, there lived two brothers, Kassim and Alibaba. Kassim was very rich and Alibaba was very poor.
One day, while returning from market with his donkey, Alibaba reached a forest. He saw a group of forty men with donkeys. The donkeys were loaded with some heavy sacks. Alibaba was scared as he realized that they were robbers. He hid behind some bushes.
Then a man from the group walked toward a cave and said, “Open, sesame.” Then the door of the cave opened. The door was made of rock. All the forty men entered the cave with their donkeys. After sometime, they came out of the cave. Their leader looked at the cave and said, “Close, sesame.” Hearing this,the cave got closed. Then they left the place with their donkeys.
Alibaba went near the cave and said, “Open Sesame.” The rock door opened. To his surprise, Alibaba saw a huge cave piled up with sacks and boxes of gold, jewels and gems. He went inside and the door closed.
He took the gold coins in a sack. He said, “Open Sesame.” When the door opened, he put the sack on his donkey’s back and as he said, “Close Sesame.”, the door closed.
When he reached his house, he closed all doors and windows and showed his wife the bag full of gold coins. He asked her to keep this as a secret. They needed something to measure the gold coins. His wife went to Kassim’s house to get the weighing scale. She told Kassim’s wife that they got some grains and they needed a weighing device to weigh the grains.
Kassim’s wife knew very well about Alibaba’s poverty. She became curious about what kind of grain they had got. So she put some glue under the weighing device.
When Alibaba’s wife returned the weighing device to Kassim’s wife, shelooked under the device and saw a gold coin sticking on it.
She told his husband, “Your brother became richer than us. Ask him how he got that much money.” Kassim became greedy for more wealth and became envious of Alibaba.
Kassim compelled Alibaba to reveal the source of gold coins. Alibaba told him everything.
Next day, Kassim went to the cave with his horses. He said, “Open Sesame.” When the door opened, he went inside the cave. The cave door closed. He took all the money in huge boxes. Seeing all those money and gold, he forgot the word to say to open the door. He said, “Open Barley” instead of “Open Sesame”. The door didn’t open !
After some time, the robber’s came. They became suspicious, when they saw horses waiting outside their cave. Kassim heard the sound of robbers and he got tensed. He hid behind a big box in the cave. But the robbers found him and they killed him.
Moral: Cleanse thy heart from greed, and thy foot shall remain free from fetters. (Arabian Proverb)
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