Chapter 28 Chapter 3 The Story of the Fisherman and the Devil (1)

A long time ago, there lived an elderly fisherman by the Red Sea who earned his living by fishing every day.In addition to his wife, the old fisherman also has three children who all depend on him for support, so the family is very poor and life is difficult.Although he fishes for a living, he has a strange habit of only catching four nets a day, and he never wants to catch an extra net. The reason is that such a thing happened when the old fisherman was still a young fisherman.That day, he rowed a small boat out to sea to fish, and when he cast the first net, he was full of confidence, blessed Allah, and prayed that Allah would bless him to return with a full load.But the first net found nothing.The fisherman was not discouraged, and cast the second net hopefully, eager to catch a big fish, but still failed to catch a fish.When casting the third net, the fisherman felt a little uneasy. He kept calling the name of Allah, but still got nothing.When the fourth net was cast, the fisherman prayed to Allah in frustration, even if he could catch a few small fish, but the result was still disappointing.At that time, the young fisherman was very angry and swore: "As long as I can catch even one fish with this net, it will be enough for me to repay the devil!" He said and cast the fifth net.This time, there was actually a big net full of fish on the net.When the fisherman was rejoicing, the sky suddenly changed, and the waves of the sea also became rough.

The fisherman was very frightened, wondering if the oath he swore while casting the fifth net had angered the gods, and he hurried home by rowing.After that, nothing happened, but the fisherman never dared to cast the net for the fifth time, and only caught four nets a day.Until he became an old fisherman decades later, he never made an exception. At noon on this day, the old fisherman came to the beach again. He put down the fish cage, rolled up his sleeves, and set it up in the water, and then cast the net in the sea.After waiting for a while, he began to draw the net.The fishing net was so heavy that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull it out.He had no choice but to go back to the shore, lay a wooden stake on the bank, tie the net rope to the stake, then take off his clothes, dive into the bottom of the sea, try his best, and finally put the fishing net away.Then he returned joyfully to the shore, dressed, and looked into the net carefully.

But there was only one dead donkey in the net, and the fishing net was also torn by the dead donkey. Seeing this situation, he felt very depressed, and sighed: "There is no other way, we can only hope that Allah, the Almighty God, will save us. How strange it is to find such things on the Internet!" After that, he murmured to himself in a depressed mood: "Go to the Internet cafe again. Thanks to Allah, I might get paid." The fisherman straightened his things, wrung out his nets, took them into the water, and said, "In the name of Allah," and cast the nets into the sea.After the net fell to the bottom of the sea for a while, I started to collect the net.This time the net was heavier, as if a big fish had been caught.He tied the net rope, took off his clothes, dived into the bottom of the sea, and tried his best to get the net ashore.However, at first glance, it was just a clay vat filled with sand.

Not reconciled, the fisherman threw away the earthen vat, prayed to the sky, and then went down into the water again, cast down the net, and pulled the net rope tightly.After the net fell into the water for a long time, he began to collect the net, but this time the net was all broken bones, broken glass and all kinds of shells.This made the old fisherman angry and sad. He looked up at the sky and said, "O Allah! I only catch four nets a day. Today I have caught three nets, but I still haven't caught a single fish. Allah Ah, please give me food and clothing, this is my last catch."

He chanted the name of Allah, the Almighty God, and cast the net into the sea. After a while, he started to collect the net, but he still couldn't pull it. The net seemed to be integrated with the bottom of the sea.The fisherman had no choice but to dive into the water again. After a lot of groping and hard work, he finally got the net out from the bottom of the sea.When I opened it, I found a gall-shaped brass bottle inside.The mouth of the bottle was sealed with a tin bearing the seal of Suliman bin Dawood. Looking at the bottle, the fisherman smiled happily and said to himself, "This bottle can be sold for ten gold coins in the market!"

He picked up the bottle and shook it. The bottle was very heavy, and it seemed to be full of things.He said to himself: "What is in this bottle? I swear in the name of Allah, I will open it to see clearly, and then sell it in the market." He took out the knife on his body, and slowly peeled Remove the tin from the mouth of the bottle, then turn the bottle upside down, hold the neck of the bottle and shake it a few times to pour out the contents.But there was nothing, the fisherman felt very strange. After waiting for a while, a puff of green smoke came out of the bottle, fluttering up into the air, and then filled the ground, and gradually shrunk into a ball, and finally this puff of green smoke condensed into a devil.He is as tall as a mountain with disheveled hair, standing in front of the fisherman: head like a fortress, arms like iron forks, legs like masts, mouth like a cave, teeth like stones, nostrils like trumpets, eyes like lanterns, strange shapes , both vicious and ugly.

The fisherman was so frightened by the devil's strange appearance that he trembled all over his body, knocked his teeth, trembled, and didn't know what to do.After a while, he heard the devil say: "Allah is the only ruler, and Suleiman is his follower. Messenger of Allah, I dare not disobey your orders again. Forgive me!" "You said... Suliman?" The fisherman said tremblingly, "But Suliman has passed away for 1,800 years, and now it is the last century after Suliman. What's in the bottle? Tell me." The devil ignored the fisherman's question and said, "Allah is the only Lord! O fisherman, let me give you good news."

"What do you want to say to me?" "What's the matter? I'm going to kill you right away!" The fisherman was scared out of his wits: "I salvaged you from the sea to land, released you from the gall bottle, and saved your life. Why do you still want to kill me? Did I commit any crime in saving you?" "Tell me, what method of death do you wish to choose? How shall I execute you?" "What crime have I committed that you want to treat me like this?" the fisherman asked pitifully. The devil looked at him and said, "Fisherman, listen to my story and you will understand. I was an evil and heretical god who did all kinds of evil. I once opposed the great god Suliman bin Dawood and violated his teachings." , and thus offended him. He sent his chancellor, Bailuhya, to arrest me and persuade me to convert to his teachings, but I refused. So he ordered this gallbladder to be brought, and I was imprisoned, sealed with tin, Seal it, and order the gods to throw me into the sea and not get out."

"I spent my days drearily in the sea. During the first century, I thought to myself: 'If anyone saves me in this hundred years, I will repay him and use my ability to make him rich and prosperous all his life.' But A hundred years have passed, and no one came to save me; in the second century, I thought: "If anyone saves me in this century, I will use my ability to develop underground treasures for him." But still no one came to save me. I; in the third century, I thought: "If anyone saves me in this century, I will repay him and fulfill his three wishes." In the fourth century, I thought: "Whoever saves me at this time, I will be grateful to him and grant him a wish.' However, after four hundred years, no one came to save me. I was very angry and swore in the fifth century: 'Whoever comes to rescue me at this time, I will kill him! But I can let him choose the way of death.'—You, you saved me at this time, so I will kill you, but I will let you choose the way of death."

The fisherman was horrified, and remembered that the incident when he was young had an astonishing coincidence with what happened to the devil, and secretly thought that this was a fateful arrangement.It was my youthful recklessness and stupidity that caused this disaster.He begged in fear and despair: "Master Demon God, Allah the Almighty God will forgive you, please forgive me too, please don't kill me!" "I must kill you! Tell me, how do you wish to die?" "I saved your life, can't you just spare me because of this?" "It is because you saved me that I am going to kill you. Don't say more, you must die."

When the fisherman was in despair, he thought to himself—he is just a devil, but I am a human being.Almighty God Allah has given me human wisdom, I should use tricks to deal with him.I will overwhelm his evil spirit with cunning and reason - so he said to the devil: "Do you really want to kill me?" "good." "I beg you in the name of Allah the Almighty, I ask you something and you must tell the truth." Hearing Allah's name, the devil couldn't help trembling, and said, "Okay, you can ask, and it's simpler." "At the beginning, you lived in this gallbladder, which is really strange. This gallbladder can't even hold your hand, let alone your leg. How can it accommodate your huge body? where?" "Don't you believe I was in this bottle?" "I didn't see it with my own eyes, it's absolutely unbelievable." At this moment, the devil became complacent, and he turned into blue smoke, gradually shrunk into a wisp, and slowly got into the gall bottle. After the fisherman waited for all the green smoke to enter the bottle, he quickly picked up the sealed tin seal, plugged the bottle, and said loudly, "Tell me, devil, how do you want to die?" The devil's body was imprisoned in the bottle, and when he wanted to get out, he was blocked by Suliman's seal and could not go back outside. Then he realized that he had been cheated by the fisherman. In panic, he said: "Fisherman, please forgive me." Leave me alone, and let me repay you well." "Damn devil! Do you still want to deceive me? If you don't intend to harm me, Allah the Almighty God will forgive you, but if you want to kill me with all your heart, of course I will put you in a gallbladder and throw you into the sea ah!" The devil begged: "In the name of Allah, you can't do this! Although I have done something against my conscience, you are a kind human being, and you should forgive me. The ancients said: The evildoer returns virtue with hatred, and his bad behavior will be punished." Make him eat what he deserves—I'm fully awake now!" "Stop talking, I will definitely throw you into the sea, so that you will never have a bright future! When I rescued you, you insisted on killing me, which shows that you are very bad. I not only want to throw you into the sea , but also to build a house, live here, and never let people fish in this sea. I want to tell people that there is a devil here, whoever fishes him out of the sea, he will repay good with evil, let that A person chooses the method of death, and is killed by him!" The devil was trembling in the bottle, he tried his best to show meekness and said: "Fisherman, let me out! This is your chance to show righteousness. I swear to you that I will never harm you in the future, and I will give you You have one thing that will make you rich." "Indecent and shameless devil! It's ridiculous for you to lie like this." The fisherman took the gall bottle to the shore and was about to throw it into the sea. "No, I dare not lie!" the devil pleaded in the bottle. "Although I have done all kinds of bad things, I have sworn to keep my word. Once a fisherman begged me to give him a full load of fish, and I He fulfilled his wish, but he promised to repay me, but it has never been fulfilled—this is why I am full of hatred for human beings, and I vow to kill the person who rescued me. But you, good fisherman, if you can If you give me another chance, I will swear in the name of Allah that I will repay you!" The fisherman was secretly surprised—all causes and conditions were caused by himself.He couldn't help but hesitated.The devil is still crying.Seeing the devil swear in the name of Allah, the fisherman was finally convinced by him and accepted the devil's request.They agreed: the fisherman releases the devil, the devil must not harm the fisherman, and will repay the fisherman with his ability. The fisherman opened the bottle, and a puff of green smoke came out of the bottle again, fluttering up into the air, and gradually gathered, turning into that ferocious devil.As soon as the devil got out of the gallbladder, he immediately kicked the gallbladder into the sea. Seeing the devil kick the gall bottle into the sea, the fisherman turned pale with fright, and secretly sighed: This is not a good omen! ——He summoned up his courage and said: "Lord Demon God, Allah said, 'You should fulfill the covenant, because the covenant will be subject to review.' You have a covenant with me first, and you swear not to deceive me. You do not break the covenant, Ann Allah will not punish you. For although Allah is lenient, He is never negligent.” The devil stared at the fisherman, and then laughed out loud.After laughing, he walked forward and said, "Fisherman, come with me, and I will take you somewhere."