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If your not responsible you need to pay for your actions.

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Adam Dabaja                                                            5-8-23
The theme is responsibility. I know this because in the text the boy waits until the last minute to plough his crops. Because he did this his crops wont grow so then he will have to replant them. This shows that he needs responsibility or he will have to pay for his actions.

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Carolene Mourad

I think the theme of this folktale is how the four dragons sacrificed them selves to save the citizens of the town that had no rain. The text says.. "I will do anything to save the people," "then let's begin. We will never regret it," Said the long dragon." they sacrificed them selves by making them selves into rivers.

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Mariam Issa

The moral of the folktale is to always help people no matter what. Some benefits of this story is even though you may get punished and no one watches what you are doing, always remember Allah is always watching. For example on paragraph 19 it states,” I will do anything to save the people.” This explains how much the dragons care about the people and not themselves. The dragons also made themselves into rivers so the poor people can eat.

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5-8-23

Salman Mawji

The theme of this story is forgiveness. In the text it talks about how the wife forgave her husband by, talking first and not caring about what others think about her. Also, her actions show that she is very forgiving.

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In the folktale, the dragons decide to bring the people rain, even though there will be consequences.  Describe a time when you put the well-being of someone else before yourself? What risk did you take to do that? 

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In the folktale, the dragons decide to bring the people rain, even though there will be consequences.  Describe a time when you put the well-being of someone else before yourself? What risk did you take to do that? 

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Mohamad Saad
A time when I put the well-being of someone else before me is when I gave chocolate to my sister. The risk that I took was that I wanted it badly.

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Fatima Saleh

The moral of this story is: ~All actions have consequences~

In the boy’s case the consequence of what happened was that he will have to replant his crop during the season because he planted them late.

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Mohamed Farhat:

The moral of the story is to learn the importance of forgiveness and to overcome hardships. Towards the end of the story the husband and wife apologize and the forgive each other. Then they both smiled and clean the leaves and they never fought again.

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Kisa Raza
The theme of this story is jealously. There were 3 sisters, the youngest was the prettiest of them all. This caused the other 2 sisters to envy the young one. They made fun of the little girl and often left her to go outside without food.

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The moral of the story is not to be jealous. In the folktale the two sisters pretended that the anklet was theirs. In the text it says,"But the two sisters died of jealousy, poisoned by their own spite."

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Aya Sabra

I noticed that this story is very similar to the famous folktale, Cinderella. The story is mostly the same, minus the evil stepmother, and the magical godmother. In this version of the story, instead of a magical godmother, she is met with a jinn. In this version, she also has no evil stepmother. Similar to the original, the evil stepsisters died of jealousy.

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Why do you think people sometimes put off or neglect their responsibilities? What are the negative consequences of this?

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In the short story, the wife and husband wash the leaves of their house together as part of forgiving each other. In your opinion, what does it take to forgive someone? Is forgiveness always possible? What advice would you give to someone who is having a hard time forgiving another person?

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In the short story, the wife and husband wash the leaves of their house together as part of forgiving each other. In your opinion, what does it take to forgive someone? Is forgiveness always possible? What advice would you give to someone who is having a hard time forgiving another person?

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It takes a lot of courage to forgive someone because you don’t want to look like the wrong person, and because you’re mad. Yes, forgiveness is always possible it will be hard to but at one point you are going to. In life it will always be hard to forgive someone because you want to be the one right not wrong. At the end of the day your going to have to forgive that person and realize your mistake.

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1. And they give others preference over themselves even though they were themselves in need….” (Quran 59:9)

2. "And do good; indeed, Allah loves the doers of good." - Quran 2:195

I chose this verse because they gave their life for the people that were poor in water, meaning that they have very little of water. Also Fatima Ibn Muhammad said after her prayers to Hassan ibn Ali "Give, wish and hope for other people before your self.

-Hussain Aljawad

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1. And whoever is patient and forgives – indeed, that is of the matters [worthy] of resolve.” (Quran 42:43)

2. "O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient." - )Quran 2:153)

Aya ayoub
I chose this verse because the wife says ”husband, these are the only leaves that are dirty. You can leave the rest of them up there..” this shows the wife and the husband forgave each other later, and the husband wanted to stop but he didn’t want to look like he started the fight so he was patient with the wife to say something and end it. In the end they forgave each other.

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1. ”Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive Allah, but it is He Who deceives them. And when they stand up for the prayer, they stand with laziness and to be seen of men, and they do not remember Allah but little. (Qur’an, 4:142)

2. "Verily, the prayer is enjoined on the believers at fixed hours." (Quran 4:103)

~Sahar~ I believe the first Quranic verse connects to “The story of the lazy boy”, because the verse explains the laziness of humans. In the story, it explains how the boy planted his plants later when weather wasn’t too good. In the Quran, Allah explains that when you waste your time doing nothing when you should do something useful. The more lazy you are, the more you forget about Allah (S.W.T)

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1. "Verily, Salah restrains (oneself) from shameful and unjust deeds…" (Quran 29:45).

2. "And do not wish for that by which Allah has made some of you exceed others. For men is a share of what they have earned, and for women is a share of what they have earned. And ask Allah of his bounty. Indeed Allah is ever, of all things, Knowing." (Quran 4:32)

I believe the 2nd verse fits the most for one specific reason: it shows to not envy or be jealous of anyone because Allah (swt) is always there to help. In this story, A girl's 2 older sisters envy her due to her beauty and how perfect she is. The Quran states '"Call on me and I will answer," Ask Allah for anything you may wish for and Allah will help. Seek Allah (swt) for help, for he is An-Naseer (The Helper)
-Dalia Dabaja, 4/8/23