Kisah Sufi
Sharing the Cucumbers
When workers brought their landlord a basket of cucumbers from the first harvest, the generous landlord distributed cucumbers to all the workers and then to the household servants, not keeping even one for himself. The landlord then turned to a servant who was eating a cucumber and smiling happily. “Let me have a taste,” he said to the servant. The servant gave him the cucumber and, to his surprise, it was bitter. “How can you smile eating something so bitter?” the landlord asked. “The memory of sweet gifts you gave us in the past made me smile,” the servant replied. TINY T TALES ALES FROM THE SUFIS 167