Fisherman and the Jinni

1. Anything from works, lives, experiences, and others in the posts have been reflected from each individual twitter’s users in their daily activities. For the most part, it is random view or chaotic events, which each person see it as “come in and go out” without reflecting of its cause and effect as well as the existence of God doing. With that, We just look at things as “not God doing” and it is our own understanding about how the world works. Take AnjaUskeas an example (I hope the author agrees with my uses), said that Mama was going to buy us our second crib and mattress for the babies. Yeah. Thats the most expensive part on the registry. The author as the same goes with all of us, we first look at that the event is necessary as for mom to buy those things to her babies, and no one who thinks about God in giving his hands in making the event to happen. The events reported in the twitters are not only chaotic times, but it also creates the stellar time in which twitter’s users are being affected by what the other written in the posts. AS mine for example, I noticed the comment of ginnyjiang(I hope the author agrees with my uses) saying that “Sunday is my family time! Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyy it!” Sunday is no- related to anyone behaviors, but it changes our perception of what Sunday is really mean to another person. It does affect my own behavior that I want to come back to VietNam this summer, for it has been two and a half year that I have not met my family, and it recalls of my old memories that I had dinner with my family on every Sunday.
2. The stories are interwoven together making the readers lose a sense, but all it gives a golden meaning in life. The Fisherman and the Jinni starts off with the poor fisherman went to the shore cast his net four times a day, each time he pray his God “Allah.” On his first attempt, he caught the dead donkey. Second time, he cast a full of dirt. Third time, he again pulled out the sand and mud. Before the last attempt, he said “the third is done and as yet Thou hast vouchsafed me nothing” to God, and he had with his a yellow cooper jar with the seal of OUR Lord Sulayman in which later the fishermen opened the cap to determine the value of its treasure. Then, a Jinni appeared with anxiety of being punished by the Sulayman, and the fishermen explained that his Lord Sulayman died for centuries ago, but instead of grant the wishes for having rescue the Jinni out of the jar after 1800 years in darkness, Jinni offers the choices or manner to the death of the fishermen. The fishermen warned that Allah will punish the Jinni for any wrong toward his “Spare my life, so Allah spare shine, and slay me not, lest Allah set one to slay thee”, but it was all for nothing. Thus, he used his keen “This is Jinni; and I am a man to whom Allah hath given a passably cunning wit, so I will now cast about to compass his destruction by my contrivance and by intelligence” to lure the Jinni back to the bottle by questioning about the Jinni real power. The fishermen explained the reason why he want to throw the bottle out the sea with the story of “The Wazir and the Sage Duban.” The story began with Sage Duban as the only person can help to cure the Yunnan King’s lep after all other magnificent medicine men have failed. After the treatment with no pains, the King gave Sage lot of gold pieces and awards, and they were like friends. However, the Minister envied Sage and created doubts to the King that how easily Sage can cure the disease and how threatening that at anytime the magic of Sagan can take the King life. At first the King told the story “King Sindibad and his Falcon” to mention that the Falcon helped the Sindibad not to mistaken drinking the poison of the venom of viper from with the tree dropping water, and the Falcon three times swung the wings to drop the liquid from Sindibad. He soon cut of falcon’s wings and later caught sights of the dropping water as venom above his head, he cried out for the sakes of his falcon after the falcon died later after that. “the Tale of the Husband and the Parrot,” summarized the same meaning with Parrot helping the husband about his mistress’s cheating, but the Parrot was killed from misunderstanding. Both stories provided the readers as to Jinni that the fishermen like Parrot and Falcon should be treated well after help Jinni getting out of the bottle. Coming back with the Minister, he convinced the King that killing Sage was necessary with the story of “The tale of Prince and the Ogress”, in which the wicked Ogress in the jungle disguised as a strange girl to lure men and eat them. After hearing the story, the Yunna King ordered the call of Sage in to kill him, Sage begged the King like the fishermen has done with the Jinni, but all were in vain similar like Jinni insisted to kill fishermen. Sage tricked the King by telling that after cutting his head, putting it in the tray of powder and opening three leaves and reading three lines of the page to your left hand, the head will answer any question that the Yunna king desires to ask. After did the same as Sage, the King was poison by the leaves penetrating to his heart. The lesson to Jinni was that “Spare me and Allah will spare thee; slay me not or Allah shall slay thee.” After hearing all the stories from Fishermen, the Jinni begged that he definitely not betrayed him, so fishermen freed the Jinni out. In return, Jinni helped fishermen caught peculiar fishes and prompted to gave those to the King for money. Like Jinni said, fishermen got lot of money from trading, and the King was astonished by the damsel appearance every time the fishes fried. The King took a journey to where the fishermen caught them, and he went into the palace and found out half men and half stone. The King decided to kill the man’s wife after heard the story of her betraying him to go to with the slave, not only whipping him, but also turning the whole islands into mountains with people into fishes. The king killed the slave first and then disguised like the slave telling the witch to turn the prince and everyone back if not the God will keep him from speaking. Then, the king sliced the witch to two pieces. The end of the story with both the King and the Prince back home safely, and the fishermen have his two daughters get married to them. Through the whole stories, the Teleological time was used a lot, god’s name was used many time as a universal of cause and effect in any event in lives. From the time when fishermen took responsibility to throw Jinni out the sea as the God’s hand caused him to meet Jinni and to seal him again. From the time in the stories such as “The Wazir and the Sage Duban” as an eye for an eye or the God’s prompting in the begging. Everything has a purpose in life, and those stories in here God’s provides the mean of helping other and good results will come forward in your life.
3. The comprehensive reports presented in this survey detail how women in MENA countries face systematic discrimination in both laws and social customs. In these Arabic stories, religious and social view did not consider about women rights, it judged women as villains and betrayal figures. However, it was the fact of many thousand years ago, and it was challenging in the Middle East culture. Today, Democratic idea about liberty and equal between man and women influences countries in Arab Middle east and North Africa (MENA) as globalization and more educated system spreading out. MENA confronted the issue of both in laws and social inequality to women. It challenges the old system, but it is still reluctant “Although women's rights organizations have repeatedly raised the issue, not one country in the region has a law that clearly makes domestic violence a criminal offense. Islamic culture stands against the view women as inferior, and they support for the reform of injustice system in MEAN from politic, government, judiciary, and private sectors. Those sectors and government turned away toward women when the war in Iraq rose. http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=163