Hello guys, in this blog i will show you the moral value which is give us lesson from some stories such us from the legend of Situ Bagendit, Nyi Roro Kidul, The Farmer and His Lazy Son, The Falcon & The Branch,
Each Person Shines His Own Way, The Bear and The Two Friends, etc above. Let's read it!
Far away in
an isolated village there was a young rich woman. The house that she had been
living in was very big. Her wealth was plentiful. The young woman lived by
herself. She didn’t have any friend at all.
“Wouw, I am
very rich! Ha…ha…ha, I am the richest woman in this village!” said the young
woman while she was looking at her gold and jewelries. It was so pity, that the
young woman was very miserly. Her plentiful wealth never been used to help
others.
“All of the
wealth is mine, isn’t it? So what am I give it all to other for?” The young
woman thought. However, many of villagers were poor. They lived in less
condition. Sometimes some villagers were hunger, and didn’t get any food for
days.
Because of
the young woman miserly, the villagers called her Bagenda Endit. Bagenda Endit
meant the miserly rich person. “Bagenda Endit, have mercy on me! My child has
not eaten for few days”, said an old woman sadly.
“Hi, you
crazy old woman! Get away from me!” yelled Bagenda Endit threw the old woman
away. Because the old woman didn’t want to go, Bagenda Endit splashed her with
water. Splash!, and all over the old woman body and her baby became wet.
Bagenda
Endit was a feeling less woman. She didn’t even have a little bit mercy to the
old woman and her baby. She even got more angry. After that, she asked the old
woman to get out of her house yard. And then, she was dragging her out of the
yard.
Although
Bagenda Endit was very miserly, the village people kept coming in. The came for
the water wheel. “No, I won’t let you to take away the water from my wheel! The
water in the wheel is mine!” Bagenda Endit yelled angrily.
“Ha…ha…ha…you’re
all stupid! You think you just can take the water from my wheel!” Bagenda Endit
said while she was watching the thirst villagers outside the fence. Suddenly, a
decrepit man was standing in Bagenda Endit house yard. He was walking tottery
to the wheel while holding his stick.
When the old
man was trying to take the water, Bagenda Endit saw it. Then, she hit the old
man with a founder. “Have mercy on me Bagenda Endit! I want to take the water
just for a drink”, said the old man when he was trying to get up.
Bagenda
Endit kept beating the old man. And then, an astonishing thing happened.
Suddenly the old man got up with a healthy body. He walked closer to Bagenda
Endit. He pointed his stick at the cruel rich woman’s nose.
“Hi, Bagenda Endit, take the punishment from me!” said
the old man loudly. Then he pointed at the wheel with his stick. Wus…byuur, the
wheel was sprinkling the water swiftly. Not long enough, the water was flooding
up. Bagenda Endit couldn’t save herself. She drawn with all of her wealth.
The village was disappeared. The thing that left was a
wide and deep lake. The lake was named Situ Bagendit. Situ means a wide lake.
It was named Situ Bagendit, because the wide lake came from a wheel that belongs
to Bagenda Endit.
Moral value from “Legend Of
Situ Bagendit”:
From
this story, we can learn moral value that rich people who didn’t respect to
other people, didn’t have mercy on, arrogant, and very miserly is not good.
They will get any punishment from God and people didn’t want to have a relationship
with them. In the partof our wealth there are the right for each other. Our
wealth is only entrusted goods from God, and that can took over by God. In the
Koran Allah saying that:
In bahasa:”Bermegah-megahan
telah melalaikan kamu, sampai kamu masuk ke dalam kubur. Janganlah begitu,
kelak kamu akan mengetahui (akibat perbuatanmu itu), dan janganlah begitu,
kelak kamu akan mengetahui. Janganlah begitu, jika kamu mengetahui dengan
pengetahuan yang yakin, niscaya kamu benar-benar akan melihatnya dengan
‘ainul-yaqiin. Kemudian kamu pasti akan ditanyai pada hari itu tentang
kenikmatan (yang kamu megah-megahkan di dunia itu)” [QS.
At-Takaatsur : 1-8].
”Indeed mankind, to his Lord, is
ungratefulAnd indeed, he is to that a
witness.And indeed he is, in love of
wealth, intense.” [QS. Al-‘Adiyat : 6-8].
”And [remember] when your Lord
proclaimed, 'If you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if
you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.” [QS.
Ibrahim : 7].
In bahasa:”Dan janganlah
sebahagian kamu memakan harta sebahagian yang lain di antara kamu dengan jalan
yang bathil, dan (janganlah) kamu membawa (urusan) harta itu kepada hakim,
supaya kamu dapat memakan sebahagian daripada harta benda orang lain itu dengan
(jalan berbuat) dosa, padahal kamu mengetahui” [QS.
Al-Baqarah : 188].
Nyi Roro Kidul
Once upon a
time, there was a beautiful princess named Kadita. Because of her beauty she
was called Dewi Srengenge which mean The beautiful sun. Her father was King
Munding Wangi. Although he had a beautiful daughter he always unhappy because
he always expected to have a son. The King decided to merry Dewi Mutiara, and
he had a son from her. He was very happy. Dewi Mutiara wanted her son to become
a king in the future so she must make sure for it. Dewi mutiara came to the
king and asked him to send away his daughter. Of course, the king did not
agree. "It is ridiculous, I will not allow any body doing such cruel thing
to my daughter", said King Munding Wangi. When she heard the answer, Dewi
mutiara smiled and said a sweet thing until the king has not anger anymore.
However, she kept her bad intention deep in her heart.
In the
morning before the sun raised, Dewi Mutiara sent her maid to call a black
magician. She wanted the black magician to curse Kadita, her step daughter. "
I want her beautiful body full with scabies and itch. If you succeeded I will
reward you with the present you never thought before". The black magician
did the queen order, in the night Kadita body has been full with scabies and
itch. When She waked up , she found her body was smell stinky and have a ulcer
all over her body. The beautiful princess cried and did not know what to do.
When The King heard he was very sad, he invited many
physician to cure her daughter illness. Day by the day nobody could cure her
daughter. He realized that her daughter illness it was not a ordinary illness
someone must send a curse or magic spell. His problem became more difficult
when the Queen Dewi Mutiara forced him to send away her daughter. "Your
daughter will bring a bad luck to whole country, said Dewi Mutiara. The king
did not want her daughter become a bad rumour in whole country. Finally he must
agree to send her only daughter to leave the country. The poor
princess went alone, she didn't know to where she should go. She almost could
not cry anymore. She had a nobble heart. She did not have any bad feeling with
her step mother, instead she always asked the God to accompany her passed her
suffer.
Almost seven
day and seven night she has walked until she came to south ocean. She looked at
the ocean. It was so clean and clear, unlike other ocean which have a blue or
green colour. She jumped onto the water and swim. Suddenly when the south ocean
water touched her skin there was a miracle happened. Her ulcer has gone and
there was no sign that she has ever had a scabies or itch. Even more she became
more beautiful than before. Not only that she has a power to command whole of
the south ocean. Now she became a fairy called Nyi Roro Kidul or The Queen of
South Ocean who lived forever. This is the most spectacular legend until now in
the modern life even when you read this story, many people from Indonesia or
from other country has admitted that they have met the beautiful fairy queen
wear a traditional dress of Java. One of the famous beach hotel has made a suit
room specially for her.
Moral value of“Nyi Roro Kidul”story:
The patient princess will be the
best princess. Humans must face hurdles to increase in rank life. If we facing
the trials patiently, God will increase our level then other. And all of
disease certainly have a medicine. Allah saying in the Koran: “And We will surely test you with something of fear and
hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the
patient.”(QS. Al-baqarah: 155)
“And if Allah should touch you with adversity, there is no
remover of it except Him. And if He touches you with good - then He is over all
things competent.”(QS. Al-an’am: 17)
The Farmer and His Lazy Sons
In Madhanpur lived a very hardworking farmer named Gopal. He
has three sons Ram, Laxman and Hanuman. All three were strong and healthy. But
they were all lazy.Gopal was sad thinking about his sons and the future of his
farmland.
One day, Gopal got a flash of an idea. He called all his sons and
said, "Ram! Laxman! and Hanuman! I have hidden a treasure in our farmland.
You search and share the treasure among you."
The three sons were overjoyed. They went to the fields and
started searching. Ram started from one
end. Laxman searched from the other end. And Hanuman did so from the centre.
They dug each and every inch of the field. But they could not find anything.
Gopal said to his sons, “Dear boys! Now you have tooled and
conditioned the field, why not we sow a crop!" Off went the sons to sow
the crops.
Days passed. Soon, the crops grew lushly green. The sons were
delighted. The father said, "Sons, this is the real treasure I wanted you
to share".
(Source: www.english-for-students.com)
Moral value from “The Farmer And His Lazy Son” story:
Fruits of hard work are always
sweet. The farmer is very clever to make his
son learn about what the mean of hard work. He has success idea, gave a
motivation, and make his son’s habit better. If we have work hard, the product
of our work is very satisfied. Islam teach us that a Muslem people must be a
hard worker. Allah saying in Koran that:
“For
each one are successive [angels] before and behind him who protect him by the
decree of Allah . Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until
they change what is in themselves. And when Allah intends for a people ill,
there is no repelling it. And there is not for them besides Him any
patron.”(QS. Ar-ra’du:11)
O
mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and
will meet it. (QS. Al-Insyiqoq:
6)
The Falcon & The Branch
Once there was a
king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons. They were peregrine
falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious
birds to his head falconer to be trained.
Months passed, and
one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was
flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from
its branch since the day it had arrived.The king summoned healers and sorcerers
from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly.
He presented the
task to the member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the
palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch.Having tried
everything else, the king thought to himself, “May be I need someone more
familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem.” So he
cried out to his court, “Go and get a farmer.”
In the morning, the
king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He
said to his court, “Bring me the doer of this miracle.”The court quickly
located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him,
“How did you make the falcon fly?”With his head bowed, the farmer said to the
king, “It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch where the bird
was sitting.”
(Source:Hemendra
Chanchani in Stephen,www.academictips.org)
Moral value of “The Falcon And The Branch” story:
We are all made to fly to realize our incredible
potential as human beings. But at times we sit on our branches, clinging to the
things that are familiar to us. The possibilities are endless, but for most of
us, they remain undiscovered. We conform to the familiar, the comfortable, and
the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting,
thrilling and fulfilling. Let us learn to destroy the branch of fear we cling
to and free ourselves to the glory of flight. The simply action can make
someone changed. And when we find an danger situation there is the way to find
our potential talent from our self.
The Mother Giraffe Makes Her
Child Suffer
The mother giraffe gives
birth standing up, so the first thing that happens to a new-born giraffe is a
fall of about two metres.Still dazed, the baby tries to stand up on its four
legs, but its mother behaves very strangely: she gives the baby giraffe a
gentle kick which sends it sprawling. It tries to get up and is again knocked
down.
This
process is repeated several times, until the new-born giraffe is too exhausted
to stand. At that point, the mother kicks it again, forcing it to get to its
feet. After that, she does not push the baby giraffe over again.
Moral value of “The Mother
Giraffe Makes Her Child Suffer” story:
The explanation is simple
that in order to survive predators, the first lesson a giraffe must learn is to
get to its feet quickly.The mother’s apparent cruelty finds support in an
Arabic proverb: “Sometimes, in order to teach something good, you have to be a
little rough.” The story educate us that the life is suffer. We will face any
obstacle and dangerous predator. A little rough can make we prepare our self in
order to survive in the real life.
Each
Person Shines His Own Way
A samurai who was known for
his nobility and honesty, went to visit a Zen monk to ask him for his
advice.When the monk had finished his prayers, the Samurai asked, “Why do I
feel so inferior? I have faced death many times, have defended those who are
weak. Nevertheless, upon seeing you meditating, I felt that my life had
absolutely no importance whatsoever.”“Wait. Once I have attended to all those
who come to see me today, I shall answer you.” – replied the monk.
The samurai spent the whole
day sitting in the temple gardens, watching the people go in and out in search
of advice. He saw how the monk received them all with the same patience and the
same illuminated smile on his face.At nightfall, when everyone had gone, he
demanded: “Now can you teach me?”
The master invited him in
and lead him to his room. The full moon shone in the sky, and the atmosphere
was one of profound tranquility.“Do you see the moon, how beautiful it is? It
will cross the entire firmament, and tomorrow the sun will shine once
again.”“But sunlight is much brighter, and can show the details of the
landscape around us: trees, mountains, clouds.”“I have contemplated the two for
years, and have never heard the moon say: why do I not shine like the sun? Is
it because I am inferior?”
“Of course not.” – answered
the samurai. “The moon and the sun are different things, each has its own
beauty. You cannot compare the two.”“So you know the answer. We are two
different people, each fighting in his own way for that which he believes, and
making it possible to make the world a better place; the rest are mere
appearances.”
(Source: Stephen, http://academictips.org)
Moral value of “Each Person
Shine His Own Way” story:
Each person has a
different potential-self which can not be compared between each other. Don’t
ever feel that you’re lower than other people. We have strength and weakness
ownself. We can light with our capability, but can not light in other people’s
capability. No body perfect in the world, because the most perfect is God, the
creator of universe.
The Bear and The Two Friends
Once two friends were walking
through the forest. They knew that anything dangerous can happen to them at any
time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would remain united
in any case of danger.
Suddenly, they saw a large bear approaching them. One of the friends at
once climbed a nearby tree. But the other one did not know how to climb. So
being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless, pretending
to be a dead man.
The bear came near the man lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and
slowly left the place. Because the bears do not touch the dead creatures.Now
the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend on the ground, “Friend,
what did the bear tell you into your ears?” The other friend replied, “The bear
advised me not to believe a false friend.”
(Source:
Abdul Rafay Katapr Larkana Sindh, www.moralstories.org)
Moral value from “The Bear And Two
Friends” story:
True Friend
is the one who always supports and stands by you in any situation. Real friend
must loyal to his partner. If they find any dangerous situation they must save
another. But in the story, one of the friend hasan egoistic character and collide
with the appointment that “they would remain united in any case of danger”. One
of the friend not honest with their friendship.
The False Human Belief
As a man was passing the elephants,
he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being
held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was
obvious that the elephants could, at anytime can break away from their bonds
but for some reason, they did not.
He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and
made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young
and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s
enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they
cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try
to break free.”
The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their
bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they
were.
(Source:
Abasa Glory warri, www.moralstories.org)
Moralvalue of “The False Human
Belief” story:
Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief
that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?Failure is a
part of learning. We should never give up the struggle in life. You Fail not because
you are destined to fail, but because there are lessons which you need to learn
as you move on with your life. Defineitely, sometime, someone give an negative
suggestion to us, it is influence us to not believe with our ability and fail
to result the problem.
Who is Happy? The Peacock and The Crow
A crow lived in the forest and was
absolutely satisfied in life. But one day he saw a swan. “This swan is so
white,” he thought, “and I am so black. This swan must be the happiest bird in
the world.”
He expressed his thoughts to the swan. “Actually,” the swan replied, “I was
feeling that I was the happiest bird around until I saw a parrot, which has two
colors. I now think the parrot is the happiest bird in creation.” The crow then
approached the parrot. The parrot explained, “I lived a very happy life until I
saw a peacock. I have only two colors, but the peacock has multiple colors.”
The crow then visited a peacock in the zoo and saw that hundreds of people
had gathered to see him. After the people had left, the crow approached the
peacock. “Dear peacock,” the crow said, “you are so beautiful. Every day
thousands of people come to see you. When people see me, they immediately shoo
me away. I think you are the happiest bird on the planet.”
The peacock
replied, “I always thought that I was the most beautiful and happy bird on the
planet. But because of my beauty, I am entrapped in this zoo. I have examined
the zoo very carefully, and I have realized that the crow is the only bird not
kept in a cage. So for past few days I have been thinking that if I were a
crow, I could happily roam everywhere.”
(Source:
Anjali, www.moralstories.org/)
Moral lesonfrom “Who
is Happy? The Peacock and The Crow” story:
The story
give us example, that’s our problem too in our life. We make unnecessary
comparison with others and become sad. We don’t value what God has given us.
This all leads to the vicious cycle of unhappiness. Learn to be
happy in what you have instead of looking at what you don’t have. There
will always be someone who will have more or less than you have. Person
who is satisfied with what he/she has, is the happiest person in the world. We
must be grateful in what of our have. God create our with a reason. All of
creatures had made with the purpose or useful apart. We have the different
individual character and that is our advantages.
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