November 11, 2024

a tip

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Zahra_abedi
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There were two Hindu men who washed people's clothes in the Indus river.  They used to take their clothes from people's houses and wash them in the Indus river and deliver them after drying in the evening. 

 Padra was a God-fearing man and from time to time he would find coins or bills in the pockets of his clothes, which he would put aside to deliver to the owner at night.  But Sunil was a man who, if he found a coin whose owner was rich, he would not return it and would only return it to the poor. 

 One day Padra found a coin in his trouser pocket that belonged to a rich man.  The night he returned the coin along with the clothes, the owner of the clothes gave Padra a big tip, with which Padra bought a 20-meter house in Mumbai and was freed from the street and a homeless person. 

 Sunil decided to do something about what happened to Padra.  One day, a rich man in Mumbai gave him a dress, and when Sunil returned, he put a coin in his pants pocket and told the owner of the pants: "He forgot this coin..." so that he could get a tip.  But the story was the other way around.  When he handed over the coin, the rich man grabbed his wrist and said: "I have lost ten coins, you gave me one and I made sure that the rest was left in my pants. You should give the rest too..." and complained to Sunil.  And instead of giving a tip, he sent him to prison for the crime of theft.

 Padar said to Sunil when he was escorting him to prison: “Never be hypocritical and pretend to do good work, know that if you do not do good work for God, it will become evil for you and it will catch you.”

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