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Long ago during the reign of Khalifa Haroon-ul-Rashid, there lived a businessman called Ali. One day Ali went on a pilgrimage. He had five hundred gold coins which he put in a jar and filled the jar with oil. Ali left the jar with his neighbour Abdul. While Ali was away, one day, Abdul ran out of cooking oil in his house. He took out some oil from Ali’s jar. As Abdul was pouring the oil several gold coins fell out from the jar. He became greedy. Abdul took out all the oil and the gold coins from Ali’s jar. Then he replaced the oil in the jar from an oil-trader. Ali returned several months later. He did not find his coins. Abdul said he knew nothing of it. Ali went to the Khalifa. Khalifa Haroon-ul- Rashid heard Ali’s complain. But there was no proof against Abdul. The Khalifa called an oil merchant. He tasted the oil and said it was two months old. Ali had been gone for seven months. He could not have put that oil in the jar. So, Abdul was caught. Ali got back his coins. (190 words)
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Ali, a businessman, left his five hundred gold coins with his neighbour Abdul while he went on a pilgrimage. Abdul, who was running out of cooking oil, took some oil from the jar. When he saw the gold coins, he became greedy and took them all. He replaced the oil with new oil from an oil merchant.
When Ali returned, he found that his coins were missing. Abdul denied taking them, so Ali went to the Khalifa. The Khalifa could not find any evidence against Abdul, so he called an oil merchant to taste the oil in the jar. The oil merchant said that the oil was two months old, even though Ali had been gone for seven months. This proved that Abdul had replaced the oil, and he was forced to return the gold coins to Ali.
