A young girl form morocco whose father was a spinner. He became prosperous in his craft, and took her with him in the Mediterranean.He wanted to sell his thread, and told his daughter that she should also look for young man who would make her a good husband.But a storm caused the ship to flounder near Egypt, killing the father and casting the daughter ashore. Miserable and exhausted, barely able to Remember her previous life, the girl wandered in the sand until she finally met a family of weavers. they took her in and taught her how to make cloths. eventually she became contented.
But after few years, she was captured on the sea seashore by slavers
who then sailed East to Istanbul and took her to its slave market.
A man who made ships's masts went to the market to buy slaves to help him with his work, but when he noticed the girl, he took pity on her, brought her, and took her home to serve his wife, but pirates stole the cargo he invested in, and he was unable to buy the other slave.He, the girl and his wife had to make all the masts themselves.The girl worked hard and conscientiously. The mast maker found her to be so capable that he eventually granted her freedom and made her a partner in his business, which she came to enjoy
One day he asked her to accompany a shipment of masts to java. she agreed,but off the cost of china the ship was struck by a typhoon.
Again she was washed up on a strange seashore, and again she cried out against fate. "why do these bad things keep happening to me ?" she asked . No answer came. she got up out of the sand and started walking inland
There was a legend in china that a foreign women would appear and make a tent for the emperor. because nobody in china knew how to make tents, the whole population, including one generation of emperor after another, wondered about this prediction.Once a year, the emperor sent out emissaries to every town to bring all the foreign women to the royal court.
in due course, the shipwrecked women arrived before the emperor, who asked her though an interpreter if she could make a tent. "i think I can"she said. she asked for rope, but the Chinese had none, and so, recalling her girlhood as the daughter of spinner, she asked for silk and spun in into rope. she asked for thick cloth, but Chinese had none, and so, recalling her life with the mast maker, she made tent pole. when she had all these things ready, she tired to remember as best she could all the tents she had seen in her life. at last she put together a tent. The emperor marveled at the construction, and offered whatever she wished. she married a handsome prince, remained in china surrounded by her children, and lived to a happy old age. And she realized that although her adventure had seemed terrible when they were happening, they turned out to be essential for her ultimate happiness
*THE END
sometimes we also feel miserable when life teach us a LESSON, but we never take it as opportunity of learning something instead we blame our life
