Kindness to a Donkey

kha-yuma malla muttenneva raba raba kese al-khaset khmara. atkha, muttenneva al-khmara kese raba. bas khzile khmara lele bashure azel urkha. kemle klile al-aklu. merre aten narahativet? shurshiyyet? spur ana khachcha men-yukrukh shaklen. kyama beklayel al-aklu.

One day the mullah had loaded a lot of pieces of wood on the back of a donkey. Like this, he had loaded on a donkey many pieces of wood. But he saw that the donkey could not go along the road. He got up and stood on his feet and said ‘Are you uncomfortable? Are you tired? Wait I shall take some of your load.’ He gets up and stands on his feet.

nashe khuyravatet malla mara malla kam bas-let betyava al-khmara? kat-ham khmara ave-rahat ham-aten. mara ana len ukhcha bi-ensaf kat raba kherba nasha aven. byayen ka-khmari hayyerren kat bush-rahat azel.

The people who were friends of the mullah say ‘Mullah, why are you not sitting on the donkey, so that both the donkey will be comfortable and also you?’ He says ‘I am not so unjust that I become a bad man. I want to help my donkey to go more comfortably.’