Question

Describe the place where wali daad lives

Answer 1

a grass cutter named Wali Dad lived in a hut in the mountains.

Answer 2

Once upon a time, a grass cutter named Wali Dad lived in a hut in the mountains. He was very poor, but he was very content with his lot. He even managed to save a few coins now and then.

One day Wali Dad noticed that the coin jar was full. He walked to the market, and there he purchased a single silver bracelet that caught his eye. Wali Dad had no need for luxuries, and no desire for them. And so he decided to give this to his friend, a traveling merchant, to take as a gift to a worthy and virtuous woman.

The merchant accepted the bracelet without hesitation and set off on his journey. Many days later he arrived at the palace of Princess Sari. He handed her the bracelet with the compliments of "a faraway gentleman who has heard of your kindness."

The princess was so touched that she naturally paid the merchant handsomely for his troubles, and she gave him a gift for the mysterious gentleman. The merchant graciously accepted the gift -- a camel loaded with silks -- and journeyed home.

When Wali Dad saw the gift from Princess Sari, he was dismayed. "I have no need for gifts," he said to his friend. "Do you know an honorable young man who deserves such things?"

Indeed the merchant did, and he agreed to take the camel and the silks to Prince Nekabad who lived some days distant in the other direction.

When Prince Nekabad saw the gift offered him from a stranger, he was touched to silence. "But I must thank this man," said the prince, and he paid the merchant well for his troubles and gave him, in return, a dozen magnificent horses.

The merchant knew that Wali Dad would not want these, but what could he do? And so he returned to his friend and presented the horses, which Wali Dad at once sent to the princess. "Only Princess Sari is worthy of such generosity," Wali Dad said. But this time when the princess saw what the stranger had sent her, she was most perplexed.

"What is a person to do in the face of such generosity?" the princess asked. With the advice of her family, she decided she must send a gift so extravagant, no one could respond.

And so she prepared a pack of 10 mules loaded with silver, and 10 camels loaded with gold, and 10 elephants loaded with jewels.

The poor merchant could not believe his eyes, but Princess Sari rewarded him handsomely for his troubles, so again he set off for home.

This time Wali Dad immediately sent his friend to Prince Nekabad with the gift, and when the prince saw this astonishing retinue, he too wondered what to do.

"I will make up a gift so splendid, the gentleman will be unable to return the kindness," he told the merchant, and he sent a caravan of 30 horses clothed in silks and wondrous saddles and loaded with gold, silver and pearls, and he sent along, as well, an army of men to protect the merchant in his journey.

Naturally Wali Dad sent this gift on to the princess, and she -- amazed at this, and suspecting it might be a proposal of marriage -- requested that the merchant take her to Wali Dad.

"I must meet the man who is so generous, and I must discover what he wishes from me," she said.

The merchant worried as they traveled toward Wali Dad. He had not lied about his friend, but he had not explained that Wali Dad was but a poor grass cutter living in a tiny mud hut, that Wali Dad wore rags and bare feet, that he was a humble man who ate only rice and greens that he grew in his tiny garden. He wanted to tell Princess Sari all of this, but he could not find the words, and when they were but one day's journey away, he asked the princess to wait with her guards. "I must," he said, "hurry ahead to give Wali Dad time to prepare for your visit."

When Wali Dad heard that the princess was coming to meet him, he wept with shame. "How could I have created such a terrible notion in this poor lady's head?" he moaned, and he decided then and there that he must never be seen by such a lady.

He ran into the forest, and there he thought he would jump from a tall cliff. But just

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