Draft:Atia (Libyan Folktale)

Atia story or Atia tale is an old libyan tale in Tripoli. About a man named Atia and his Idiot wife taia, in a first preprctive as the husband Atia

the tale

The tale start with atia who is a Trader. Thanking Allah for his well going business. While thanking allah atia look at the people in the Marketplace, lost at site of people.

atia would each day get the left over of his Commodity for Ramadan, so he give them to the Widows and Orphans.

we then get introduced to Taia (atia wife). She is frustrated at atia habit of gathering leftovers and says “no women would accept all of this stuff in her house”.

one day atia would come back and he would be greeted by taia being happy. “I found the man you were saving all of this left over for.” She said, Atia knew in an instant that a bad thing happened. He asked “what?!”.

Taia smiled and said “when i was cooking dinner. I heard someone in the street saying . Ramadan ! Ramadan ! (Ramadan is name for men in libya). I got all of your things out and i got out and told him to take them. He acted like if he was crazy said he didn’t know you. Even after i told him your name. So i began screaming for the neighbours. That is when he stopped acting stupid and got a Carriage and got all of his stuff and said “that is a blessing from the lord (Lord is another name for allah)”and gone”

Atia punched the wall and said “you idiot woman those stuff weren’t for a man named Ramadan. It is for the Zakat of Ramadan. Now we would have to give it from our own Money”

in a moment of realisation Taia began to Cry and hit her face in a signature of guilt, her husband Atia Walked out in and said “may allah don’t judge me by you stupidity or your action”.