In one of the Yemeni villages lives a very beautiful girl named Zahraa. She was an orphan of both parents and she had one brother named Hamed. Hamed loved a girl and married her, but she was not as pure as Zahraa, but rather the fires of jealousy began to burn inside her, yes, she is very jealous of Zahra’s beauty.

What made Hamid’s wife angry the most was the village people’s talk about Zahra’s good manners, so she tried in various ways to entrap Zahraa with plots to prove to the villagers that she was a girl without principles and naive, but she did not succeed. The villagers know Zahraa well, and what made matters worse was that in one In the days, Hamed's wife was sitting with a few of the village women, sharing conversations and stories, and Hamed's wife was pretending to be kind and good-natured, thinking that Zahra would forget them and describe her beauty and morals.

But the women slandered Zahraa, so Hamid’s wife got angry and came home jogging, wanting to make poor Zahraa suffer a great evil.I forgot to tell you that Hamid's wife practices magic, so she took a rooster and slaughtered it in the bathroom, so the bathroom was filled with his blood. Then she took out the feathers of your parents and chopped it, so whoever sees the bathroom thinks it is full of human blood, there are no feathers or anything to prove that she slaughtered a rooster, and she went out of the bathroom to her room to bring the book of magic to cast the spell.

Meanwhile, Zahraa, who is good, entered the bathroom and was horrified at the sight of blood. As she tried to get out of the bathroom, she slipped and fell into it, and her clothes filled with blood. Hamed's wife came out of her room carrying the book and went to the bathroom to complete the ritual, but she was shocked when she saw Zahraa covered in blood, and Zahraa was also shocked when she saw her brother's wife holding a book of magic, so Zahraa was afraid of that book and wanted to show her brother Hamed the truth of his charming wife.

Zahraa screamed at the top of her voice, so Hamed's wife was frightened and returned the book to its hiding place and looked back at Zahraa who was crying. Then she heard the voice of Hamed knocking on the door, and she saw that if he knew that she was practicing magic, he would have punished her, so she thought of a good plot so that she could escape her misfortune! She decided to slander Zahraa for fornication, and that she was pregnant and miscarried the fetus. This blood that is covering her is due to the bleeding of the miscarriage, and this is the best evidence.

Hamid's wife caught the trick of cunning in her mind, and she found the appropriate trick to make her husband believe her words, and she started screaming: (Woe to you, Hamed.. we lost.. So let's catch up with this misfortune, and oh, oh, God's raid, so catch up with Zahraa. Look at Zahraa, who we thought was a good girl) Zahraa was dumbfounded by the horror of the plot, and wept sadly and oppressed by her wicked brother-in-law. Hamid ran and broke the door when he heard the sound of his wife's screaming, and when he arrived, he was shocked when he saw Zahraa crying and her clothes were full of blood and looked at his wife who started crying.

He had a gun in his hand, so he thought when he heard Zahraa screaming that a lion had attacked them, so his wife said: (Look at your sister, she has lost our dignity and trampled her in the dirt, it seems that she was pregnant and miscarried). He pointed his gun at Zahraa, and Zahraa said: (I didn't do anything, believe me, she lies that she is a witch. Hamid, please believe me.) Hamid interrupted her: (And you dare call her a liar because she showed me the truth, you adulterous bitch? Who is the one who manipulated your mind to commit indecency with him?)

Zahraa said: (Believe me, I fell in the bathroom and there was blood in it. I don’t know where it came from, so my clothes were stained with it.) But her words did not convince her brother, and he soon killed her without batting an eyelid, and Hamid’s wife was happy with the result, especially if she did not lie to him and deceive him With her ingenuity, she would have been involved in revealing her practice of witchcraft, as the punishment of witches at that time was harsh, and because he loved her madly, an angel saw her who did not make mistakes and did not lie, so Hamid believed his wife and killed his sister whom his father entrusted him with before his death.

Hamed buried Zahraa with her clothes and her shawl over her head without caring or committing to the funeral ceremonies, as he claimed that it was filthy and unworthy. The shawl that was above Zahra’s head had a pocket, and this pocket was filled with pumpkin seeds. A person from the villagers passed by and a bottle of water fell from it over her grave or the pit in which she was buried. and he took off the cover of the bottle and poured water on her grave until it reached those seeds, so the seeds grew and the pumpkin tree grew, so people kept watering it, and a large pumpkin grew.

This pumpkin was under the balcony of an old woman's house, and she admired the pumpkin and resolved to cut it, so I took an ax to cut it, and as soon as I waved the ax to cut the root of the pumpkin until I heard a voice saying: (Ah) .. Like a child crying out in pain, the sound was coming from the pumpkin, so the old woman looked To the pumpkin and saw a red liquid coming out of it like blood, so the old woman was afraid and stopped and went back to her spacious house, and the pumpkin was under her eyes day and night looking at it from her window, and the old woman did not have the desire to get it, so she thought to dry it.

But she thought of that sound that came from her and remembered that blood, so she was afraid, but her desire overcame her fear, so she was led to a cunning idea, where she brought a blind man so that he would not see the blood when he cut the gourd. But he stopped when he heard a screeching sound coming from the pumpkin, so he got scared and ran away, so the old woman returned to her disappointment.

The next day I brought a deaf man so that he would not hear the sound. He hit the ax once and twice, but he stopped when he saw blood coming out of the tree, so he got scared and ran away. On the third day, the old woman brought a deaf and blind man! He does not see or hear.. He cut down the tree without caring, and the old woman took the pumpkin and returned to her house and put it on the roof to dry and made a jar out of it.

The old woman left the pumpkin for days without even looking at it, and it seems that she forgot it completely, because of her constant preoccupation. She is a wealthy old woman with many jobs. She used to go out in the morning and come back at noon and did not notice anything strange. The house was spacious and she cleaned half of it, so she went to work and completed cleaning the other half of the day. The next time, she would come back and find it clean and tidy, even the half that she had not cleaned, she would find clean, and she would find the food incomplete, so that sometimes she would go without cleaning the house, but she came back and found it sparkling clean.

One day the old woman thought carefully, because she had no maid, so who cleans the house then? .. and decided to discover the secret, the next day the old woman went and decided to return early, so she went and then came back early and snuck into the house and hid, and after a while I heard the sound of cleaning tools from the room in front of her, so I looked towards the door and was shocked to see a girl like the moon cleaning, and when she finished cleaning she took a little of food and trotted to the surface.

So the old woman followed her and found her hiding in the pumpkin, so I revealed her and promised her that she would not harm her if she told her her name. She told her that her name was Zahraa and told her her story with her brother’s wife, so the old woman took a mirror and gave it to her saying: (Look at the beauty of your face, God willing.) Zahra looked and was shocked to change her features. A lot with her golden blonde hair, but what shocked Zahraa the most was the passage of time, as it had been two years since her brother buried her.

Zahraa lived with the old woman serving her, and she loved the old woman Zahraa, and she loved the old woman, and it was by chance that Hamed moved his house next to the old man's house, and between the items Hamed found a book of magic and scolded his wife, but he did not believe that she had turned into a witch. He was watching from the window on the roof of the old man's house a beautiful girl like an angel putting clothes on ropes to dry, so he decided to go to visit the old man, he admired the girl and wondered about her.

Knowing that this old woman has neither sons nor daughters, she has been living alone for years, so he knocked on the door, and the old man answered him (Who is there?), Hamed said (Open, Auntie, I am Hamid, I would like to speak with you.), So the old woman doubted the reason for his coming and refused to open for him in any way One of the forms because she was afraid that the pumpkin girl (Zahra) would be revealed, so Hamed went to his disappointment and kept watching the old man’s roof. The beautiful woman (Zahraa) no longer climbed to the roof, so he grieved deeply, as he loved her madly without knowing that she was his sister, whom he killed for fear of shame, according to his belief.

Hamed is madly in love with this girl. How does he know that she is his sister? Her features have completely changed! Hamed went crazy with this girl and decided to get her as possible, and Hamed's wife noticed her husband's straying always in front of the window, so she ignored the matter in order to preserve their marriage, and one day Hamed was looking, as usual, to see that the beautiful woman would go up to the roof, but he watched the old man return to her house from afar, so he decided to embarrass her and enter With her, he hurried out towards her house.

When the old woman stopped in front of her house, I heard him say: (Stop, aunty, I want to talk to you.), The old man tried to ignore him, but Hamed was insistent, so I brought him into her house and sat with him in the living room and Zahra hid in the bedroom, then Hamid insisted that the old woman take him in He went to see the house, for he had never seen her house, so she took him for a tour until they stopped in front of the bedroom, and the old man refused to show him, but he insisted and opened it by force to be shocked by the angel: (What a beauty!) So he said when he saw her, her beautiful eyes, her rosy cheeks and her golden hair.

The old man asked him not to tell anyone about this girl, so Hamid tried to find out anything about the girl, how she came and what her name was? But the old man refused to tell him about anything around her, then Hamid said: (Okay, I will hide this girl’s secret on one condition.) (And what is your condition?) The old man said, Hamid said, “Marry this girl, or I will tell everyone that you kidnapped her.” And she was not. The old woman wants to marry Zahraa, as she has gotten used to her and loved her, but there is no trick in hand, as he took advantage of her position. She said shrewdly: (Okay, that's okay, but you will pay the dowry that I will ask you.)

Hamed agreed, and because he was very wealthy, and just as he exploited her, the old man exploited him and took advantage of his wealth. Hamed requests the old woman, so he brought her what she wanted, and when Hamid's wife learned that her husband was going to marry her, she went crazy and then began practicing her magical rituals, so she used the jinn and the jinn told her that the girl Hamid was going to marry was his sister Zahra and that Hamid had bought them an ivory and glass bed. So I thought and sought help from the jinn, and enchanted the two beds, and made them unable to stand lying and unable to see evil.

Hamed married the beautiful girl (Zahra), and when they slept together, the two beds started making a strange sound and said: (A bed of ivory, a bed of glass. It is not valid for brothers to marry.) And they repeated this phrase, and Hamed said to the girl: (Who are you?), She said, I am Zahra, and you?), He said: (And I am Hamid). The two were shocked, and Zahraa Hamid told the story of the pumpkin and that his wife was the reason, so Hamed divorced his wife and took Zahraa from the old man and left.

Hamed arrived in a valley with Zahraa, and they found an old abandoned house, repaired it and lived in it, and they made a covenant that neither of them would marry and that they would stay together until the end. Hamed took care of Zahraa well and did not make her complain because he could not afford to lose her again. Ibn Hadi, and he found wolves and tigers in this valley, so he bred them and fed them, and they became obedient to him, so if he released a young she would rush to him to meet him.

Hamed warned Zahraa not to open the door for anyone, because he used to go out to work from morning until noon, and he would come back and find Zahraa had prepared lunch for him, and there was a small table next to their house, and one day Zahraa decided to go out to the table for a bit, so she went out and washed her hair But a golden lock fell from her hair, and she did not know. Then she returned and prepared the food, and Hamed did not know that she had left.

There was a sultan who lived in a large palace and had an obedient, intelligent maid, but she was an old man. So the old maid took the camel to take care of it in the valley in which Hamid lived, so she went to the stream. The old maid asked the reason for his refusal, so she started looking at the table and found a golden hair that she had never seen like her beauty.

So I looked around the valley and saw the deserted house, it was new, but it was closed, so the old woman took the camel and the golden hair and returned to the palace. of diamonds.) So the old woman was happy with this tempting offer, so she went out the next morning to the valley and watched Hamid until he got out of the house and moved away from the valley, then went to his house, knocked on the door and Zahra was combing her hair.

The old maid answered, (Please, my little girl, open the door for me.) Zahra replied, (I’m sorry, I can’t) The old woman said, deliberately making pity: (Please, I can’t stand it. Have mercy on me, I’m almost starving and thirsty.) The girl dispersed. She opened the door and brought her in and gave her food and drink. The old woman saw that Zahra’s hair was long and golden like the hair that she had found in the stream. She was waiting for the opportunity to pull a hair out of her hair, but she could not. She kept watching her until Zahraa combed her hair, and the old maid noticed that Zahraa could not She combs her hair for its length and density.

She said with artificial love and tenderness: (Please let me comb your hair for you.), Zahraa agreed, and while the old woman was combing her hair, she picked a hair, and after they talked a lot about different topics, the old maid left her with happiness, and Zahraa did not notice the time and that it was time for her to return. Her brother and the food was not ready, and when Hamid came back he asked her why the food was late, she only told him that she was busy cleaning, but he said: (Zahra why are you lying? Someone was here, the wolves told me.) So Zahraa Hamid told the hungry old woman, so he warned her not to You open up to someone again and make him food.

The old maid returned to the Sultan’s palace and gave him the hairs that matched the hair she had found in the stream and described to him Zahra’s imaginary beauty. He gave her a jar of gold and diamonds and said to her: “If you make this girl accept to marry me, I will give you what you wish for.” The old woman agreed, despite the difficulty of the task, in The next morning, the old woman waited for Hamed until he went and went and knocked on the door, but Zahraa refused to open it, but the old woman asked her forgiveness again. Zahraa opened for her and gave her food and drink and prepared the food quickly so that Hamed did not suspect that someone had visited her, then the old maid began her skill in persuasion. She told her that her brother was lying to her and that he would marry one day.

I tried with her until Zahra was convinced and decided to take her at night, so the old man went and Hamid came back from work and had lunch, then he said: (Who was here?), Zahraa answered him (No one.), Hamed said as he got up: (Do you think I am an idiot? Stop! About my deception, Zahraa. The tigers and the wolves noticed that someone entered the house. You told me, how many times did I tell you not to open the door to anyone?), Then Hamid got angry and left the house, and Zahraa felt hatred towards Hamid, he first shot and killed her After hearing his wife and believing her, secondly, it seems that the old man's words are true, but he is lying - for how can tigers understand and speak? And, most likely, he is the one who is spying on her, and thirdly, he has left me alone now.

But Hamed did not lie, for the tigers, wolves and horses were very smart, and the old woman was watching from afar, so she took advantage of Hamid's absence and went to Zahraa and persuaded her to come with her. So Zahraa put cotton in the ears of tigers and wolves so that they would not listen to Hamid's whistling and answer his call, and she put a sticky liquid at The horse's feet so that he would not go to Hamid, then I went with the old maid, on the way he found Sultan Hamid's guards returning home, so they followed him.

He called for help with his animals: (My wolf, the horse of Ibn Hadi, smashed the valley.) They did not respond to his call, for the tigers and wolves do not hear because of the cotton, and the horse whenever they are getting up is caused by the sticky liquid, and Zahraa asked not to kill her brother Hamid, so the Sultan swore to her that they would not They kill him, and when the guards reached the Sultan, they asked him: (What do we do with him.. If we don't kill him, he will cause trouble?), The Sultan, who was clever and clever, said: (Do not kill him, because I swore not to kill him, but killed him in another way.), So she asks the guard How is that, so the Sultan said (Do not kill him, but bury him alive in the way of passers-by, so that if he does not die because of you, he will die because of the feet of passers-by who trample him.), So they buried him.

An hour later, pedestrians with a she-camel passed, and when they were passing by, the she-camel stopped and refused to pass, so they asked why? So they dug because they know that the camel does not stop unless it is related to a human being, so they found Hamid and fortunately he did not die yet, the Sultan held a big party on the occasion of his wedding in Zahraa. The palace and the audience looked up, there was a balcony overlooking the whole palace decorated with roses, and the Sultan was overlooking, and beside him the old maid, and between them stood Zahra in her white dress.

Hamed looked at her and said: (I am hunting the pigeon among the hawks.) So he aimed the spear towards her and killed her and ran away, but what surprised the guards was that Hamed had hit Zahraa with a spear in her forehead between her eyes, just as he had hit her with a rifle.