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delighted looking at the happy face of the emperor. He was full
of hopes expec ng the emperor's call for jewellery's deal. And
indeed in the mean me, emperor's soldiers reached the clerk's
home with his name. The clerk seated in the gallery was
extremely happy to know this "Wow! I got it! My hopes got
fulfilled" Really, soul dances on the moves of ignorance! Are
the hopes really fulfilled? Of course not, he doesn't know he
was ge ng into the trap set by his master. A man should
pa ently think what it is? What it is not?
The soldiers with angry red faces roared from below and
began to threaten him, "Idiot! What have you done? Get up.
Your death is at your doors. It is the order of our majesty to kill
you!”
The clerk was damn frightened! For a moment, he lost
his consciousness. It is obvious to get afraid for anybody on
listening to the name of death. S ll, he mustered his courage
and asked,
“But, what happened?”
“A er doing such a big insult of our great majesty, you
are asking 'what happened?"
“But at least tell me what insult have I done?”
They grew furious and said, "He is mad. He just doesn't
know like a mad fellow.”
The clerk pleaded, "I really don't know anything.”
They screamed, “You scoundrel! You don't know?
Haven’t you gi ed dirty hair packed in a cat in the court of the
world's emperor? Such a mean and insul ng act! Now you are
behaving like you are completely unaware of this thing. C'mon,
get up, your life ends now!”
It happened so that a er the clerk went off the royal
court. The emperor got curious and tore cat's velvet cover. And
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there he saw ghtly packed man's hair overflowing from it! The
jewellery dish became full of hair mess! The emperor felt a big
shame and insult in front of everyone in the court. So he
immediately ordered. “Go and cut the clerk's throat.” So the
soldiers rushed over there.
The merchant had just expecta on of a bit punishment
in his wicked plan. But instead, the clerk got fixed in the jaws of
death. So one should remain alert because some mes it
happens, we just try to trouble someone propelled by hatred
on him. And beyond our expecta ons, the result may come so
fatal and dangerous that some mes it leads to endless
repentance for us. The merchant had no thought of killing the
clerk. He failed to think that 'This is a Muslim emperor. In a fury,
he may even straight away strike the throat!’ Why didn't he
think? Due to uncontrolled boiling temper. Even if a man is a
scholar, religious person, or a penant, he may lose his sense
and become crazy as soon as he becomes red by rage. Man in
control of temper forgets everything and loses his presence of
mind. So control your temper to control your senses.
The clerk understood, 'Definitely, the emperor must
have opened the velvet cover of the cat. The bunch of hair
might have come from it. So, did the master set this trap as a
revenge for my last words 'Boss's instruc ons work ll the
gate?' I know the boss's nature is mean and peevish. He
reached down to such meanness! I too made vain haste 'Haste
makes waste'. Was I going to get any glory in saying such
words?' The clerk was repen ng then. But what was the benefit
of repen ng? The clerk got angry 'How cruel of the boss who
thrashed a poor man in such a deadly condi on?' But what
would the clerk then get by ge ng angry.
But see over here, the good thing is, how generous is the
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