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Here is a story about 1 book and a very wise man.
Mohamed is from Somalia. When he was 31, he married his sweetheart. But then, after just 3 months, he was put in jail [तुरुंग]. Why? Because he wrote a letter to the government about the bad conditions [परिस्थिती] of his local hospital. At that time, Somalia was ruled by a dictator [हुकूमशहा]. The dictator said Mohamed was working against [विरुद्ध] the country when he wrote his letter.
Mohamed was put in a jail cell [जेल सेल] all alone. And there was a rule in the jail: no one was allowed [परवानगी देणे] to talk! What would it be like to live every day without talking?
Mohamed was very worried [काळजीत] about his wife because he was told that he would never be able to leave jail. In the silence [शांतता], all Mohamed could do was think about his wife. He loved her. He missed her. He worried [काळजीत] about her. But then something very strange [विचित्र] happened! He was angry [रागावले] at his wife because she was free and he was not. He was worried that she would forget him and marry someone else. He started to hate [तिरस्कार करणे] her. Mohamed thought he was going crazy [वेडा]! He knew he loved his wife and that she loved him! Where did all the thoughts of hate come from? He didn't know.
One night, after being in jail 8 months, the prisoner [कैदी] in the next cell whispered [कुजबुजणे] to Mohamed, "Learn ABC through the wall!" Mohamed did not understand. Learn ABC through the wall? How? Then Mohamed put his ear to the wall and he could hear a sound! The prisoner next to him was knocking [ठोठावणे] on the wall!
The prisoner made a different [भिन्न] knock for each letter of the alphabet! The prisoner was a doctor who worked at the hospital with Mohamed.
The doctor found a way to be smarter than the prison rules [नियम]. He found a way to communicate [संवाद साधण्यासाठी] without talking so the guards [संरक्षक] would not know.
The doctor worked hard to save himself and Mohamed from insanity [वेडेपणा]. For two years the 2 men "talked" to each other by knocking on the wall.
Then one day, the doctor was taken to see the director of the jail. The doctor found a way to ask the director to give him a book! The book was Anna Karenina. It is a book by a very famous Russian author called Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy used stories and books to make people think. Some people write books to entertain [मनोरंजन करा] you. Tolstoy wrote books to make people think.
So the doctor began to "read" Anna Karenina to Mohamed by knocking each word on the wall! The book is more than 800 pages and has more than 350,000 words! (Does this remind you of how Annie Sullivan spelled words to Helen Keller?)
Mohamed said the words of the book freed him from his mental [वेडा] jail. The book helped both men survive [टिकून राहा].
After 8 years, the two men were freed. Mohamed found his wife. She had waited for him. Now they live happily together.
Wisdom:
You could say that the doctor was a wise man.
How was he wise? What did he do that made him wise?
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