In The Market
Umar: Have you visited the Market of this city O my friend?
Khalid: No O my brother, I am indeed a new foreigner in this city I do not know the way.
Umar: Come with me, I am going to the market; to buys some goods as we will return before Maghrib if Allah wills, and the market is not far.
Khalid: What Allah willed! These are beautiful markets and beautiful clean shops, and what is this beautiful shop to the right O Umar?
Umar: This is the grocers shop, do you not see the fruits and you see the people bargaining the grocer for them.
Khalid: I want to buy some fruit, the banana guava and orange, and I want to call some brothers to breakfast early morning.
Umar: The guava is very expensive in these days. And the orange is sour, and there is no harm in the bananas.
Khalid: Please O my brother we will haggle the grocer.
Umar: It is better that we buy the fruit from the vegetable market early morning because the dried fruit and fresh fruit in them are many and are cheap.
Khalid: This is the idea, and what are these shops O Umar?
Umar: These are the fabric shops, do you not see how the types of fabric are spread and how the people are touching them and bargaining the merchant for them?! Come I want to buy shoes.
Khalid: Please I am your friend.
Umar: Please bring out suitable shoe for me.
Shopkeeper: This is a beautiful and sturdy shoe.
Umar: Yes, however it is slightly big.
Shopkeeper: And this other is suitable completely.
Umar: How much is it?
Shopkeeper: Six rupees.
Umar: Will you not decrease the price?
Shopkeeper: You will never find O my master cheaper than this in the market.
Umar: I believe you; for indeed you are a Muslim and the Muslim doesn’t lie and doesn’t deceive.
Khalid: And what is this shop which people are eating in?
Umar: This is the restaurant people are eating in it, and the restaurants in the city are many.
Khalid: What is wrong with me I have not seen a restaurant in the village?
Umar: Because in the city are foreigners and travellers, for them there aren’t houses for them to reside in and eat in, so they eat in the restaurants, as for the village the foreigners in it are less so there is no need for a restaurant in the village.
Khalid: And where will we find paper and ink and pen and colours and blotting pad and writing tools?
Umar: This is the paper manufacturer shop you will all school stuff in it.
Khalid: I thank you O my noble friend, you benefitted me greatly, and I think that we return now to the house and pray Maghrib there.
Umar: yes, and no work has remained for me.
