English stories

once upon a time, there was a king who was very rich. He was very ungrateful. He wanted him to become richer, so he wanted him to have the ability to turn anything he touched into gold. He was so greedy. When he went to his room, he saw a light in the room, from which an angel came out. The angel told him that every time you touch anything with the first rays of morning, it will turn into gold.                                    This is what happens when he wakes up in the morning and touched something, it turned into gold. When he went to the dining table and pick up a cup of tea, it turned to gold. And when he tried to eat his food, it also turned into gold, and even when he went back to his room and touched his daughter, she also turned into gold. Now he could not understand anything. He got very worried.  N...

There was a beautiful village away from the city. The villagers were very simple, poor but sweet-hearted. They used to live within their resources and always remained thankful to Allah Almighty. They never made complaints to anyone about their poverty. Due to their behavior, they remained happy and self-satisfied. There was a very poor person named Sher, who had with him, only his wife. The couple had no kid; even then they always remained happy and thankful to their Allah Almighty. People around them were very surprised by their satisfaction. Sher was a simple but very jolly person and was a source of amusement for his villagers.     Sher was also low paid employee at an office in the city. He was not having a bicycle and due to his poverty, he couldn’t afford to visit his house except on weekends. There was one person named Fateh in his office that was also from the same village. That person was having a bicycle to commute on daily basis. The same person was Sher’s superviso...

  Once upon a time, there was a king who had three daughters. He loved them very much and was afraid of losing them. He always got saddened by the thought that these three would leave him one by one after their marriage. One day he called his three daughters and asked them, “How much they loved him”. First of all, he asked the eldest one and asked her, "How much do you love me". She replied that she loves her father, the most in the world. He then asked the same question to his second daughter, and she also replied in the same words. After that he turned to his youngest daughter and asked her the same, she replied, “I love you even more than the salt.” Hearing this, the king was annoyed and thought that he has worth equal to that of salt in her third daughter’s eyes. This daughter does not love him and she should be thrown out of the palace. So the king decided to arrange her marriage with an ordinary person. King’s daughter was confused about this and tried her best to prove...

Once upon a time, there was a King who was commanding a large state.   One day the King was sitting with his minister, King’s mood was very pleasant. He asked his minister, “What is a wish of his life which you always thought to be fulfilled, which never happened”. The minister was shy to put his demand but the K insisted to tell about his wish. The minister said. “Your majesty, you have a beautiful large state under your command, if you agree, I want to get ten percent of your beautiful state, I want to command that part of State”. The king said, “if I give you half of my kingdom, What will you do”? Minister got nervous about this statement of Kind and was thinking, how it is possible, how he could be so lucky? The king immediately called the secretary and ordered him to write two orders. In the first order, the king issued a decree of handing over half of his kingdom to his minister. In the second order, the King ordered to behead of the minister. The Minister was surprised ...

There was a family of ghosts living in a place; they had made their homes. This was agricultural land belonging to a farmer. The farmer always used to plough it to grow new crops. This action of the farmer always disturbed the ghost’s family as their houses used to destroy and they had to build their houses again. They had to do this practice every farming season and they became fed up with this routine. They had their chief ghost, to whom they always put their request to have some solution, but the chief ghost always delayed his action and never resolved the issue, which resulted in frustration amongst the ghost family. One day when the chief ghost had gone anywhere, the ghost family decided to meet the farmer to have an agreement with him. They went to the farmer’s house in the shape of a delegation and met him to resolve the issue. One the ghost said to the farmer’ “We live in the land where you grow your crops in every season. We have our houses, occupies with our wives and kids...

Where there is a will there is always a way. If anyone puts full commitment and effort to achieve any target, destiny will help him/her to get it. It is upon the person how dedicated he/she is to the achievement of his goal. Nothing in this world is impossible if the person engaged in its fulfillment shows true spirit and d edication. We can get an example of "Where there is will there is a way" which is mentioned in succeeding paragraphs.  There was a person who was a very good journalist and always worked with zeal and zest for his newspaper. He was so dedicated to his job that he always remained the backbone of his network. He had a wish to write a book of his own but he never got time for that. His commitment to his job was always appreciated by his seniors and the owner of his newspaper. One day when he woke up to go for his duty, he tried to get out of his bed but surprisingly he was unable to move. He became totally disabled and his whole body except his brain beca...

  Allah has bestowed every human being with unlimited capabilities about which he himself doesn’t know. If a person limits himself to particular boundaries by thinking that he is unable to do more, then he will be doing injustice not only to himself and also to the people of his surroundings, who would have  benefited  from his capabilities. We can take the example of elephants in this respect. Once upon a time, an old man along with a young boy was walking around in a village. This was a very fine evening with pleasant weather. While they were crossing in front of a farmer’s house, they saw two elephants tied with thin chains to small pegs. The young boy was very much surprised to see gigantic elephants tied with such weak chains and pegs. He assumed these things to be so feeble to handle such huge elephants. He put his query in front of the old man that why these giant elephants not getting themselves free by putting little jerk. The old man got the young boy’s poin...