It was a long time ago that there lived a merchant in the country of Iran who had a very beautiful parrot. The merchant had brought this parrot from the forest of India. The parrot used to talk very sweetly and was very dear to the merchant. Once the merchant had to go to India for trade. Before going on the journey, he went to the cage and said to the parrot, “Dear parrot! I am going to your country India, where I will pass through the forest where your companions live, if you want to give them a message, tell them. The parrot replied, “Master, you just tell my friends that they live in the forest of the country with great pleasure, breathing in the free air, but I am yearning to meet them in this cage away from the unfortunate country.”When the merchant reached India, he passed through the same forest where the parrot’s friends lived with his convoy. Seeing that many beautiful parrots were sitting on the trees, the merchant remembered the message of his parrot and he heard the message loudly to them.

As soon as the merchant finished his talk, the condition of the parrot worsened, he started trembling badly and fell from the branch of the tree and died. Seeing this, the merchant was very sad, he thought that maybe it was a close relative of my parrot who died after hearing his painful message. When the merchant reached his homeland, he told his parrot about the death of his relative. After listening to the merchant, the parrot wrinkled and fell on the floor of the cage and started crying, in a short time his eyes grew stone and the body became lifeless. The merchant was very sad at the death of his beloved parrot and he shed a lot of tears, then he opened the cage and threw the parrot out.

As soon as the merchant threw the parrot, the parrot pounced on it and sat on the branch of a nearby tree. Seeing this, the merchant was very surprised and said to the parrot, “O unfaithful parrots, I loved you so much, but you have deceived me very much.”Hearing this, the parrot said, “You loved me because I used to seduce you by saying good things, but O foolish man, you yourself told me the recipe that my friend had sent, I followed it and became dead like him, so you yourself freed me from your own hands. You call me brickies. Saying this, the parrot called his master Al-Wadda and left for his home, humming. Freedom is a great blessing and it is the special grace of Allah that we were born in a free country. We need to keep our country clean.