Children love to listen to stories about magical creatures and their incredible adventures, and to immerse themselves in a world of fantasy and adventure.
After all, it is through fairy tales that a child receives ideas about Good and Evil, gains wisdom and learns to build his relationships with the world around him. Vivid images and characters, implausible events - all these metaphors help the child understand the essence of the fairy tale, its meaning. Adults sometimes do not realize how much benefit and meaning real old tales, aimed at instilling respect for bread and flour.
It is no coincidence that there are many fairy tales and legends about bread and flour. Bread as a symbol of life and faith is revered by people all over the world. The wisdom of our ancestors calls to protect and respect bread. And this covenant is forever sealed in fairy tales and sayings that have been composed over centuries. They all talk about kindness, patience and justice. Such fairy tales will also be useful for adults, because with their spiritual simplicity and ease they help us forget about the hustle and bustle and for a moment return us to that serene childhood. And the deep instructive meaning will make you think and discover something new in such a simple and long-familiar magical story.
“A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it,” people say. And our task is to hear and understand the deep folk wisdom and pass it on to our children.
Without salt and without bread - bad conversation.
If it grinds, it will all be flour.
Without a piece of bread there is sadness everywhere.
You eat for a day, but stock up on bread for a week.
Leave some bread for tomorrow and no work.
Eat bread and salt, good people Listen.
Your own crust is better than someone else's pie.
Kalach gets boring, but bread never does.
Someone else's bread is in my throat.
What you sow, you put in the barn.
Sow millet into ashes, and wheat into season.
If there was a tub of flour, I’d go get some water myself.
Every grain has its time.
Muslim was a poor peasant. He worked all day long to feed himself and his family, and in free time dreamed of a treasure.
One fine day, Muslim was working in the field and, feeling very tired, sat down under a tree to rest and dream: “Oh, if Allah gave me the opportunity to turn everything I touch with my hand into pure gold, then I would get rid of the need for hard work and food."
Suddenly Muslim heard a voice:
- O Muslim! I will give you what you want so badly!
Indeed, as soon as he touched the pebble, it immediately turned into gold.
Muslim was very happy and thought: “Today I will go to the city and turn sand and stones into gold...”
And just as he wanted to get up, he felt very tired, thirsty and hungry and realized that he did not have the strength to get up.
“Let me eat my breakfast.” Muslim took a piece of bread, but when he put it in his mouth, he suddenly felt the taste of metal - his flatbread turned into gold!
Muslim was terribly scared. How will he drink and eat now? After all, without food and water, he will very soon die, without even enjoying the gold, which he now has in abundance.
This is what Muslim thought, imagining how he would slowly die from hunger and thirst.
But then he opened his eyes and realized that he was sleeping.
- What a blessing that I only dreamed of all this! - he said.
And since then I have always remembered that even all the gold in the world cannot replace a person’s nourishing and tasty piece of aromatic bread.
In ancient times, in a distant Kuban village there lived a Cossack named Yatsko. And when the war ended, he put away his Cossack uniform and started farming. Yatsko began to plow the land, sow grain and harvest. Then I ground the flour and baked it hot, delicious bread. Cossacks from all over the region came to him for fragrant bread. But the Cossack had a big problem. One day a terrible fire broke out in the village, and Yatsko’s entire crop burned down. He only had enough grain for one sack.
It's getting cold. And the frosts were such as have never been seen in Kuban. Yatsko put on a sheepskin sheepskin coat and went out into the yard to see what was going on there. Everything around is white and white, and birds sit on snow-covered trees and don’t move at all, they freeze. Yatsko felt sorry for the poor birds. He built feeders for them and poured two grains of wheat into each one. The birds flew to the grain, began to eat and get their fill, because even the smallest of them were not afraid of severe frosts on a full stomach. From that day on, Yatsko began to take care of the birds and pour grain into the feeders every day.
And so the winter passed, followed by spring and sowing time. Only then did the Cossack realize that he had fed his only bag of grain to the birds.
Yatsko sits in the hut and grieves. When suddenly he hears noise and commotion on the street. "What's happened?" - he thought, going out into the yard.
He looks and a flock of birds circles over his garden and each one throws a grain of wheat into the ground and flies away. And so many times.
Yatsko collected a huge amount of harvest that year. And he found himself a wife, the most beautiful in the entire outskirts, and they gave birth to many little Cossack children. From then on, they lived happily ever after, because our bread is such an amazing breadwinner: if you sow one grain, you will reap ten from it.
Do good - and it will come back to you!
Once upon a time, there lived two mice and a cockerel. The mice Krut and Vert sang and danced all day long. And the cockerel Vociferous Throat rose early in the morning, then woke everyone up with a song and got to work.
One day, while sweeping the yard, the cockerel noticed on the ground wheat ear:
- Little mice, look what I found!
Krut and Vert answer him:
- You need to thresh the spikelet.
- But not us! - the little mice squeaked.
“Okay,” answered the Vociferous Neck cockerel, “I’ll thresh.”
The mice were delighted and started playing rounders.
Meanwhile, the cockerel threshed an ear of wheat and said:
- Hey, little mice, look how much grain I threshed!
Krut and Vert ran up and squeaked in one voice:
- Now we need to take it to the mill and grind flour.
- But not us! - added Krut and Vert.
“Okay,” answered the cockerel, “I’ll take the grain.”
He did so, and meanwhile the little mice played leapfrog.
The cockerel threshed flour and returned. Krut and Vert ran up, looked, couldn’t stop looking:
- Oh yes, Vocal throat! Well done! All that remains is to knead the dough and bake the bread.
- But we can’t! - added the little mice.
The cockerel thought and thought and said:
- Okay, apparently I’ll have to again.
So I did. I baked some fragrant bread and put it on the table.
The little mice didn’t waste any time either: they sang and danced and got hungry.
They rather jumped at the table. And the Vociferous Neck says to them:
- Wait! First answer me, who found the wheat ear?
- You! - the little mice squeaked.
-Who threshed him?
- You! - both squeaked quietly.
- Who carried the grain to the mill and then kneaded the dough?
“That’s it, cockerel,” Krut and Vert squeaked even more quietly.
- What did you do?
The mice had nothing to answer to this, and they left the table.
So there will be science for the little mice: work and reward!
One morning the man wanted bread. Yes, so much that it’s unbearable. He got ready and went to a nearby shop where they baked fresh bread, rolls and bagels.
I chose a large, delicious pie, tastier and fresher, and instantly gobbled it up. He walked around a little near the baker's shop and came back - he was still hungry. Then the man bought a large roll from the baker and quickly devoured it. I still want to eat.
Then the man chose the largest roll he could find on the counter, hoping that he would finally be satisfied, and also dashingly swallowed it. But the feeling of hunger did not go away.
The man looked around the counter with longing and sadness and noticed a bunch of crispy bagels. I bought myself a whole bunch, picked the first bagel from it and slowly ate it. And suddenly he became full.
The man was delighted, hit himself on the head and shouted:
- Eh! What a fool I am! It was in vain to buy pies and rolls, because in order to be full I would have only had to eat one bagel!
This is how it always happens with us: the last piece of bread is the most delicious and satisfying.
Not far from the village there lived an old tree stump that no one wanted. He would have liked to, but he couldn’t make anyone happy. Sharp branches stuck out from all sides, making it impossible to sit or lean against.
A person will see it from afar and will be glad that there is something to rest on. And he’ll come closer, get angry, push the stump with his foot and say:
“You’re standing here in trash, just taking up land!”
Penek was very offended by such insults, but he could not do anything.
One day a man passed by him, carrying a large sack of wheat to the mill. He saw the stump from afar and was glad that he would not have to rest on the ground. And as I got closer, I saw that you couldn’t sit on the stump and you couldn’t put the bag down.
- Ugh, the ax is crying for you! - said that man and kicked the stump with his foot goodbye.
And then a miracle happened: one small grain fell out of the bag and fell inside the old stump.
Soon the grain of wheat began to sprout. The rain watered it generously, and the stump protected it from the cold and hungry birds.
When the spikelet ripened, the golden grains fell into the ground, and in the spring new young spikelets sprouted from them.
Time passed, and soon a whole field appeared around the stump. So much so that he himself was no longer visible.
And that field began to feed the poor and hungry birds.
And those passing by asked in surprise:
- Whose field is this?
And no one remembered that it all started with a small rotten stump and a grain of wheat.
Likewise, the work of a peasant who labors in the field all day long, growing wheat, collecting it and grinding the grains into flour, is unsightly in appearance. But the fruits of this labor - fragrant, fresh bread - give us all a source of life and prosperity.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION KIROVSKY DISTRICT
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF DONETSK
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
COMPETITION ENTRY
« Speech development lesson “The weighty gold of bread” based on the fairy tale by K. G. Paustovsky “ Warm bread».
(for the competition of methodological public events
"Russian loaf")
Completed:
Velikikh Ella Nikolaevna, teacher of Russian language, literature and ethics,
1stqual. categories
Donetsk secondary school No. 78
Donetsk-2015
ANNOTATION
This work takes important place in the system of lessons for studying the fairy tale by K. G. Paustovsky, it is better to use the material for a lesson in speech development, based on the fairy tale by K. G. Paustovsky “Warm Bread” to teach students careful attitude to the breadto human labor,responsibility for your words and actions, kindness; show connection folk wisdom with literature and life; onlearn to find an idea work of art and understand it correctly; Bybe able to interpret the moral of a given tale;emphasize the writer's skill in choosingartistic means for accuracy of impact on the reader;expand vocabulary students; develop skills of analysis, synthesis and comparison.
Equipment : portrait of K. G. Paustovsky, video presentation “Bread is the Head of Everything,” presentation of the work of K. G. Paustovsky, song “On the Road of Good,” dictionarywise thoughts, drawings by students, task cards.
Lesson topic: Speech development lesson “The weighty gold of bread” based on the fairy tale “Warm Bread” by K. G. Paustovsky.
Objective of the lesson: based on the fairy tale by K. G. Paustovsky “Warm Bread”, to instill in students a caring attitude towards bread, towards human labor, responsibility for their words and actions, kindness; show the connection of folk wisdom with literature and life; teach how to find the idea of a work of art and understand it correctly; help in interpreting the moral of this tale; emphasize the writer’s skill in choosing artistic means to accurately influence the reader; expand students' vocabulary; develop skills of analysis, synthesis and comparison.
Equipment: portrait of K. G. Paustovsky, video presentation “Bread is the Head of Everything,” presentation of the work of K. G. Paustovsky, song “On the Path of Good,” a dictionary of wise thoughts, drawings by students, task cards.
PROGRESS OF THE LESSON
I. Motivation for educational activities.
Guys, today we will work on the content of the fairy tale; Let's name the character traits of Filka that he acquired during the fairy tale; Let’s think about what it means to “Give warmth to others - to keep warm yourself.”
II. Updating basic knowledge.
Did you like the fairy tale “Warm Bread”?
Which characters caught your attention and why?
III. Checking homework
a) Filling out the table.
Fairy tale
(2 students fill out the table)
b) Students reading homework essays - miniatures “My good deeds”
c) Test survey of the content of the tale. Contest " The best expert fairy tales"
1. Why did the horse stay in the village?A) He was wounded.
B) Pankrat wanted it that way.
B) The horse did not want to go further.
2. What was Filka’s nickname? A) “I don’t know anything.”
B) “Fuck you!”
C) “You are all smart.”
3. What story did Grandma Filke tell?
A) About how she once offended a soldier.
B) About how a man from the village offended an old soldier.
B) About how the war ended.
4) What happened when Filka threw bread into the snow for the horse?A) A snowstorm has begun.
B) There was a flood.
B) There was an earthquake.
5. How did Filka atone for his guilt?A) He didn’t want to change.
B) He fed everyone.
B) I was chopping ice with the guys at the mill.
6.What was the magpie talking about over the dam?A) About the fact that she woke up the summer wind.
B) About the fact that Filka - bad person. B) About the fact that she is the smartest.
7. When did the mill start working? A) In the evening.
B) She is broken forever.
B) In the summer, when it got warmer.
8. How did Filka make peace with the horse?A) Asked him for forgiveness.
B) He brought him fresh bread and salt.
B) He fed him carrots.
9. What is the fairy tale “Warm Bread” about? A) About the need to be kind and sympathetic.
B) About evil sorcerers.
B) About a trip to a desert island.
10. Which proverb corresponds to the content of the fairy tale?A) There is nothing more courageous than victory over yourself.
B) Language will take you to Kyiv.
C) There is time for business, an hour for fun.
Answers: 1A, 2B, 3B, 4A, 5B, 6A, 7A, 8B, 9A, 10A.
IV. Collective drafting plan “Path to Victory” by students.
1) Conversation with Pankratov.
2) Good deed.
3) The mill started working.
4) Warm bread.
5) Tears of victory.
V. Expressive reading works “Warm Bread” by students.
(until the end of the episode about Filka and the thrown bread)
VI. Conversation on the content of the fairy tale.
What bad did Filka do? Why does the author condemn him?
(for throwing bread, rough handling of a horse)
Who is a Christian?
Tell us on behalf of the horse what he experienced when Filka did this to him.
Who told the parable about human evil?
What conclusion can we draw from it, what does human anger lead to, why is it scary in life?
Why did Filka offer the horse bread and salt?
To whom is bread and salt traditionally offered?
Teacher's word. Guys, let's listen to the text about the meaning of the saying “Bread and Salt”, where it came from and what it means.
BREAD AND SALT
What does this warm, hospitable greeting mean?First of all, this is the desire to taste the bread, to join the meal, the table. And in a broader sense, it is a wish for peace, joy, and prosperity.
Bread and salt to lead - means to be friends for a long time, to maintain warm relations.
Hospitable house - the house is welcoming, hospitable.
Hospitable owner - the greatest praise for a person who knows how to welcome kind guests with all his heart.
So, bread and salt is both a treat and care. The ancient Russian ritual of offering bread and salt to someone who is being received with honor at a ceremonial meeting still lives to this day (Valentina Volina).
Why did the guys say that Pankrat would have special bread and salt?For what?
Why do we find out the name of the horse only at the end of the work?
How often do you have bread on your table?
What proverbs about bread do you know?
What proverbs can be attributed to the content of the fairy tale?
Justify your opinion.
Bread-father, water-mother.
Bread is the head of everything.
Bread warms, not a fur coat.
Bread and salt, and lunch was on.
Eat bread and salt, and good people Listen.
Not a piece of bread, and there is melancholy in the mansion, but there is no bread, and there is paradise under the spruce tree.
Why do people make proverbs about bread?
We know that our people valued bread very much, but how do people treat bread now?Give examples.
A teacher's word from the history of bread
How did bread appear on earth?
This greatest discovery happened in ancient times, over 15 thousand years ago.According to scientists, it was in those distant times that people first began to collect cereals, which were the ancestors of our current wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
In the Stone Age, people ate grains raw, and then learned to grind them between stones and mix them with water.This is how the first millstones, the first flour and the first bread appeared. The first bread looked like liquid porridge. Scientists have established for sure that the great-great-grandmother of our bread was liquid grain porridge, which is still consumed today in the form of bread soup in some countries of Asia and Africa.
When man learned to make fire and began to use it for cooking, another discovery was made.The man began to fry the crushed grains before mixing them with water, and became convinced that the porridge from such grains processed by fire was much tastier than the one he had eaten before.
Several more millennia passed, and people learned to prepare our usual bread from fermented dough (from the magazine).
VII. Lexical work.
How do you understand the words: grain (year), cultivator, baker, hospitable?
Find synonyms for them.
VIII. Comparative analysis texts.
A PIECE OF BREAD
There was a piece of bread lying on the side of the sidewalk.With an appetizing crust, with a ruddy, tender break. It seemed that the bread was still breathing the warm aroma of the oven.
Maybe it was dropped by a worker hurrying to the factory, maybe it was thrown by a capricious little one - who knows.The lively city sparrow set his sights on tasting the fresh bread and hopped sideways towards it, but huge dusty boots appeared from somewhere, and the sparrow had to fly away. Then shoes with thin heels, like two pencils, stepped over the bread, almost catching them, and the old woman's shoes shuffled. People walked and walked along the sidewalk...
Someone's small, well-polished shoe touched the bread with its toe - and it flew like a soccer ball, spinning in the dust, into the very middle of the road. A stout, freckled boy in a sports jacket laughed contentedly—just the right blow!A piece of bread flew right where he was aiming.
- Sin!.. It’s a sin!..Big sin! - was heard nearby. The boy looked back. An old man stood nearby. A decrepit old man, wrinkled, tanned by the sun and years.
The old man looked to the left, looked to the right: there were cars somewhere.And with small steps he trotted into the middle of the road. He bent down, groaning, picked up the bread, blew the dust off it and carefully carried it to the nearest lawn:
- Let at least the birds peck!
He put him on the grass, but he didn’t move away. Costs. Thought about it. About what?
Maybe he remembered his hungry childhood, when even on holidays his mother added bran and bark to the flour.It is not easy to survive until the next harvest if there are eight mouths in the family and only two working hands!
There is no doubt: this man saw bread not only on store shelves.And not the penny that piece costs, he bowed, picking up the bread from the asphalt. The work of man, the work of a farmer, always difficult, always holy! His strong and calloused hands, the ones that feed us!
(A. A. Nuikin)
How does this text echo the text of the fairy tale?
What conclusion can we draw after listening to the story read?
Why is the fairy tale by K.G. Paustovsky is called “Warm Bread”?
IX . Expressive reading of poems by heart by students.
Bread - it does not fall to us from the sky
It doesn't appear suddenly
So that an ear of bread grows
It takes the work of a dozen hands
I will embrace you with my joyful gaze
Far away the endless fields
Glory to those who love the earth
To those who work on it!
Teacher's word.
Guys, our soul is in bread native land, the fates of many people, their tireless work. Mother, Motherland, bread - these are some of the most sacred words of man. Bread should be treated as great wealth!
Bread crust, bread crumb,
What is it - is it a lot or a little?
I can’t even believe you and I,
That someone is littering this miracle of the earth.
My heart aches for bread,
When he lies in the roadside dust.
***
Here is the bread - tall, rosy and fresh.
This is what you eat every day:
Orlovsky, Riga, custard,
You like wheat and rye.
Don't ever forget.
How much work it took
Raise the tough virgin soil
Plows in a difficult spring,
Fertilize the ground for grain,
So that it stands out like a spike.
The bread we eat
Bread is a brilliant invention of mankind.He was born of the sun, earth, water and fire. Rolls don't grow on trees - everyone knows that. This is the work of generations. There are few values in the world that, like bread, do not lose their meaning even for a day or an hour.
Bread connects the past, present and future, and that is why it is great.Bread is always near a person, his faithful companion. It was, is and will forever remain the number one product.
We meet with him every day.Neither a modest breakfast, nor a weekday lunch, nor festive table. He accompanies us from birth to old age. Bread seems to us to be an eternal symbol of well-being and prosperity. This is one of the most valuable food products, a means of protecting people from hunger.
X. Summing up the lesson.
Why is the genre of this story defined as a fairy tale?
What miracles happened in it? Which fairy tale characters did they act?
What experience have we gained from this story?
1) you need to be able to correct an error;
2) work and friendship will help out in any trouble;
3) reconciliation is a difficult matter, but it brings joy;
4) bread is a national treasure, it must be protected.
REFLECTION
Continue the phrase: “Bread is...”. An associative series appears on the board (peace, joy, prosperity, happiness, goodness, life, wealth, shrine, field, house);
Why can a person do without many things, but not without bread?
I would like to recall the words of Paustovsky “There is a string in every heart. She will definitely respond even to the weak call of beauty.” Maybe the writer wondered whether he was able to convey this string of goodness, mercy, and love to your heart. Do good and remember the proverb: “Live kinder, you will be nicer to everyone.” I wish all of you, children, to follow only the path of goodness and never turn away from this path. (The song “On the Road of Goodness” sounds).
Homework: writers - find riddles, proverbs about bread, compose a book “Bread in different genres CNT"; artists - draw an illustration for the fairy tale “Warm Bread”, journalists - write a note in the article “The Weighty Gold of Bread” (or “What is the power of bread?”)
List of used literature
Texts about bread. Collection “Russian language 5-6 grades.Development of situational speech".
Presentations on the topic “Bread is the head of everything”, “K.G. Paustovsky “Warm bread”.
Abbas was a poor fellah. (Fellah - peasant, farmer). He worked all day long to earn food for himself and his family, and in his free hours he kept thinking about how to find a treasure that would save him from want.
One very hot day, Abbas was working in the field as usual. Feeling very tired, he sat down under a tree and began to dream: “If Allah would give me magical power, so that I could turn everything I touch with my hand into gold - then I would get rid of hard work and live in complete contentment.”
O Abbas! Now you will get what you really want! Place your hand on any object and it will immediately turn into pure gold.
Abbas couldn't believe his ears. But still he reached down to the ground and took a small pebble. As soon as he touched it, the pebble immediately turned into pure gold. Then Abbas touched another stone - and it also became gold.
Abbas was very happy and thought: “Now I will go to the city and turn dust and stones into gold... Then I will buy a lot of land, build a palace on the river bank and surround it with a huge garden... I will buy beautiful horses and dress in luxurious clothes. ..”
Here he wanted to get up, but, feeling very tired, hungry and thirsty, he realized that he would not be able to walk.
“I’ll eat what I brought with me from home this morning,” he decided and extended his hand to breakfast, which lay in a small bag near the tree. Abbas took the cake, but when he put it in his mouth, he felt metal. And the bread turned into gold!
There was still an onion in the bag. Abbas hastily grabbed it. Imagine his confusion when the onion became a gold bar that he could not eat!
Abbas was terribly scared. How will he drink and eat now? How will it be to live in this world of gold bars? After all, he will very soon die of hunger and thirst, without even using the gold, which is easily given to him.
So Abbas thought, imagining how he would die in agony from hunger and thirst, since everything he touched turned to gold.
But then he opened his eyes, saw himself perched in the shade of a tree and realized that he was dreaming. A deep sigh of relief escaped his chest; as if a mountain had been lifted from his shoulders.
Thank Allah that it was all just a dream! - he said.
Still, it’s nice to read the fairy tale “Bread and Gold (Arabian Tale)” even for adults, you immediately remember your childhood, and again, like a little one, you empathize with the characters and rejoice with them. And the thought comes, and behind it the desire, to plunge into this fabulous and incredible world, win the love of a modest and wise princess. Household problems - incredible good way, with the help of simple, ordinary examples, convey to the reader the most valuable centuries-old experience. Devotion, friendship and self-sacrifice and other positive feelings overcome all that oppose them: anger, deceit, lies and hypocrisy. Having become familiar with inner world and the qualities of the main character, the young reader involuntarily experiences a feeling of nobility, responsibility and high degree morality. Charm, admiration and indescribable inner joy produce the pictures drawn by our imagination when reading such works. IN once again re-reading this composition, you will certainly discover something new, useful and edifying, essentially important. The fairy tale “Bread and Gold (Arabian Fairy Tale)” needs to be read for free online thoughtfully, explaining to young readers or listeners details and words that are incomprehensible and new to them.
And Bbas was a poor fellah. / Fellah - peasant, farmer /. He worked all day long to earn food for himself and his family, and in his free hours he kept thinking about how to find a treasure that would save him from want.
One very hot day, Abbas was working in the field as usual. Feeling very tired, he sat down under a tree and began to dream: “If Allah gave me magical power so that I could turn everything I touch into gold, then I would get rid of hard work and live in complete contentment.”
And suddenly he heard a voice:
- Oh Abbas! Now you will get what you really want! Place your hand on any object and it will immediately turn into pure gold.
Abbas couldn't believe his ears. But still he reached down to the ground and took a small pebble. As soon as he touched it, the pebble immediately turned into pure gold. Then Abbas touched another stone - and it also became gold.
Abbas was very happy and thought: “Now I will go to the city and turn dust and stones into gold... Then I will buy a lot of land, build a palace on the river bank and surround it with a huge garden... I will buy beautiful horses and dress in luxurious clothes...”
Here he wanted to get up, but, feeling very tired, hungry and thirsty, he realized that he would not be able to walk.
“I’ll eat what I brought with me from home this morning,” he decided and extended his hand to breakfast, which lay in a small bag near the tree. Abbas took the cake, but when he put it in his mouth, he felt metal. And the bread turned into gold!
There was still an onion in the bag. Abbas hastily grabbed it. Imagine his confusion when the onion became a gold bar that he could not eat!
Abbas was terribly scared. How will he drink and eat now? How will it be to live in this world of gold bars? After all, he will very soon die of hunger and thirst, without even using the gold, which is easily given to him.
So Abbas thought, imagining how he would die in agony from hunger and thirst, since everything he touched turned to gold.
But then he opened his eyes, saw himself perched in the shade of a tree and realized that he was dreaming. A deep sigh of relief escaped his chest; as if a mountain had been lifted from his shoulders.
“Thank Allah it was all just a dream!” - he said.