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        "id": 1753091,
        "msgid": "blessings-from-caring-for-ones-parents-1779543052",
        "date": "2026-05-20 21:15:00",
        "title": "Blessings from Caring for One's Parents",
        "author": "Hasanul Rizqa",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Anthropology",
        "summary": "Abdullah rejects corrupt wealth and devotes himself to caring for his ageing father. After his father's death, a dream and a sequence of humble choices lead him to a single gold coin, which eventually unlocks a cascade of fortune after diamonds are found inside fish, culminating in royal patronage. The tale highlights filial piety as a powerful and transformative virtue.",
        "content": "<p>During the time of the People of Israel, there lived a poor family.\nThey consisted of a father and four children. The father was elderly and\nworn, struggling through each day. Only one of the four sons was willing\nto look after him. Let that son be Abdullah. \u2018You do not want to care\nfor your father because you will not receive his inheritance after his\ndeath. Let me take care of him,\u2019 Abdullah said. Every day the son\nattended to his father. With gentleness and courtesy, Abdullah took care\nof his father\u2019s needs. Eventually, his father died, leaving no wealth\nbehind. Abdullah then bathed, prayed for, and buried his father\u2019s body.\nAfter that, he returned home. That night, Abdullah dreamed of someone\nwho looked poor but spoke arrogantly. The strange man said to him, \u2018Come\nto this place, dig in the ground there. You will surely find 100 gold\ncoins. Just take them!\u2019 \u2018Is there any blessing in that money?\u2019 Abdullah\nasked. \u2018No!\u2019 replied the man before speeding off. The next morning,\nAbdullah told his wife about the dream. The woman advised him to go to\nthe place indicated. If indeed there were 100 gold coins there, take\nthem and spend them on daily needs. But Abdullah was reluctant. The same\ndream continued to recur for several nights. Each morning, his wife\nurged him to go to the place shown in the dream and take the money\nthere. Abdullah remained unmoved. On the fourth night, he had a slightly\ndifferent dream. For this time, the strange man who approached him said,\n\u2018Take one coin of gold from there!\u2019 \u2018Is there any blessing in it?\u2019\nAbdullah asked. \u2018Yes, there is!\u2019 the man exclaimed before vanishing from\nview. In the morning, Abdullah went to the location, as instructed by\nthe mysterious man in his dream last night. Indeed, there was a pile of\nmoney in the ground. But he only took one coin of gold. On the way home,\nAbdullah met a fisherman selling fish. He bought two fish from him for\none gold coin. When he got home, his wife received the fish Abdullah\nbought. She was astonished! For inside the bellies of the two fish lay\nbeautiful diamonds. \u2018If the king knew, he would buy these diamonds for\nany price,\u2019 Abdullah murmured. It did not take long for people to learn\nof the jewel found in Abdullah\u2019s fish bellies. From the palace, the king\ncame to his house to see it. The king asked, \u2018What is the price of this\ndiamond?\u2019 \u2018Gold weighing a hundredweight is no less than thirty\ncartloads of horses,\u2019 Abdullah replied. Without further bargaining, the\nruler agreed to pay. Soon after, a procession of palace guards arrived.\nThirty horse-drawn carts carried gold to pay for Abdullah\u2019s diamond. The\nnext day, a soldier knocked on Abdullah\u2019s door. It turned out the king\nfelt that the diamond he had bought would be more beautiful if it had a\nmate. So the diamond in Abdullah\u2019s fish\u2019s belly was purchased by the\nking as well. \u2018Do you have a mate for your diamond? If so, we will buy\nit at an even higher price,\u2019 said the palace envoy. Abdullah agreed to\nsell it. Thus his wealth, already considerable, grew even more. Such was\nthe blessing he felt after showing filial piety to his aging\nparents.<\/p>",
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