Once
upon a time, a wife and a husband without any children were preparing to
go to Mekka on pilgrimage. However, they could not decide what to do
with the two hundred sikkes, which was their life-savings. Finally they
divided the sikkes into two equal bundles. They left one of these
bundles in the care of one of their neighbours. And they left the other
bundle in the care of their Türkmen neighbour.
The
Türkmen neighbour said to them:
“Open
the box in that corner and put the bundle in it.”
On
returning from pilgrimage, the husband and wife went to take their
money.
The
first neighbour said them:
“Oh
neighbour, I used your money and increased your 100 sikkes to 150
sikkes. I have taken some of them for myself.”
Then
they went to their Türkmen neighbor and asked for their sikkes. Their Türkmen
neighbor said to them:
“Open
the box in the corner and take your money.”
Nothing
happens by chance in life. A Türkmen saves the goods left in his care
better than his own goods. If he has to use an item and damages it in
any way, he buys a new one and apologizes to the owner of that item.
Save
the things you hold in trust because they belong to someone else!
