The Story of a Stone

🍡 A Stone's Tale 🍡
🍡Age +4🍡

🌿 Publisher's Review:
I am a small stone, living in a village blessed by God with abundant nature,
which the villagers did not exploit properly.
The ruler thought about how to make his villagers cooperative, and I (the stone) was the hero.
In this story, my tale with the milkman, the farmer, and the carpenter, each of whom blamed the darkness for not removing the stone.
And at the end of my story, an answer to the important question:
Why can't we see in the dark?!

🌿 My opinion:
One of the wonderful symbolic stories with great potential for discussion with children.. I will write a summary.. A village whose people caused its corruption because each one cared only for himself and did not do their work well.. The ruler wanted to teach them a lesson.. He placed a large stone in the road in front of the palace and announced a prize for the first person to reach the palace.. Everyone stumbled over the stone and was annoyed by its presence, and some people were even harmed by the stone.. but no one thought to remove the stone from the road.. until a young shepherd came along who, despite his young age, size, and the weight of the stone, decided to remove it.. And the surprise was...

🌿 There are many lessons to be learned from this story.. I will mention some of them, and the rest is for parents to apply the story to daily situations:

🍡 The shepherd was the only one who acted upon the Prophet's saying, ".....and removing harm from the path is charity" (agreed upon), which is one of several hadiths about the virtue of removing harm.. Extract them with your children❤️

🍡 The shepherd's honesty.. He could have taken the gold and left.. but he chose honesty.. And you can talk about the virtue of honesty.

🍡 The shepherd's help to others.. He treated the foot of one of the people (personally, what infuriates me most are videos that depict someone else's tragedy without attempting to offer help, and there are so many of them...)

🍡 The shepherd did not have the "I" mentality, but rather felt that he was part of society and had to adhere to its morals even if everyone else lost these good qualities.

🍡 The shepherd was not waiting for a reward in the first place.. And this is our situation too.. We must strive regardless of the immediate result.. Perhaps we will not see it now.. But the noble scribes record everything..

🍡 The introduction to the story is wonderful.. Like stones, so are people.. Some build and some destroy....

🍡 As for examples of its projection onto our reality.. There are always stones that stand in our way.. So instead of waiting on the sidelines in despair until someone comes and removes these stones.. why don't we be the first to act..

Don't curse the darkness.. instead, light a candle..

🌿 The story ends on page 31, followed by a simple piece of information about light.
🌿 Large font and full vocalization suitable for reading beginners.
🌿 Number of pages: 35
🌿 Dimensions: 22*23
🌿 Weight: 175 gr