The Sparrows and the Ruthless King
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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious and the most Merciful. Once upon a time a king had two sons Dilbar and Shahzoor who prepared to leave for travel. His wife sat on her bed and watched a sparrow titikhus in his nest having two little children. One day another sparrow came and pushed out the little sparrows and occupied the nest. When the king saw his wife in a sad mood he asked about the reason for her sadness. "She told the tale of the sparrows and added that she was afraid that he would kick out her children after her death like the sparrow did. The king replied: You are a fool, I will never kick out my sons from the palace." After some days the king left for a daytrip and when he came back his wife was ill due to sadness about what had happened to the chicks of the sparrow and died a few days later. Forty days after her death, the king went out to find a new wife and celebrate marriage with another woman. When the king went out for another daytrip, Dilbar and Shahzoor played together goli dan dan (a game) when their tuksuri dropped from the sun roof near their step mother's bed. Shahzoor said to Dilbar: Please go and pick it up because I am scared that our step mother will shout at us. When the big brother went and picked up the tuksuri, his step mother asked him to come near to her, but he was scared. Thus, she gripped and beat him. Crying, he run away to the ground of the palace where his brother joined him and both remained sitting outside of the palace. When the king reached home he asked his wife what had happened. She said your son misbehaved towards me and she told him what has happened in a distorted way. The king ordered his body-guards to take his sons very far away which they did obediently.
The king had ordered his bodyguards to slaughter his sons and take out their kidneys, fry them, and serve them to him. However, his bodyguards had mercy with the little boys and let them to run very far away from their father's injustice. They therefore fried the kidneys of some sheep and served them to their king.
For many days whenever night arrived the sons passed it under a big stone. At some point the older brother told his younger brother to stay awake while he would sleep and vice versa. They took turns of sleeping because the older brother was afraid of attacking enemies and animals. One night when the Dilbar was sleeping Shahzoor was to be awake, the latter unfortunately also fell asleep, snake came by and attacked Dilbar killing him. When Shah-zoor woke up he tried to wake up his brother but realized he was dead. He then made a hole in the ground and [before leaving] buried herein half of his brother's body while the other half remained above the ground. When [unexpectedly] a lady then came by she saw a handsome young man who was partially buried in the ground. As she was the fiancé of that snake, she told that snake to take away the poison from that handsome man. If the snake would not fulfil her wish she would certainly not marry the snake. Therefore, the snake had to obey the lady's order and he sucked out the poison from Dilbar's body after which he became alive and started to continue his journey by following his brother's footsteps.
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