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THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW’S WISDOM
This is a story about a good father who had a bad son and a wise daughter-in-law. The father was a religious man. He and his wife had only one son. The son was doing well in his studies, so the father wanted the son to study in the town.
Although he was not rich, he had some land. So he sold a plot of land to pay for his son’s education. His son studied and studied and then did well in his examination. Then he became a scholar. But he lived in the town, while the poor father and his wife remained in the village.
Then the father wanted the son to get married. Once again the father was ready to sell his property so that his son could be happy, happier, happiest. So they became poor.
Their son got married and he and his wife had a child. Soon he became very rich. Because he was rich he was able to send the child to a good private school. In every way the child was doing well.
Once, from the village, news came that his father was very sick. But the ungrateful son did not want to go to see his father.
He said, “He is an old man and his time has come. It will be a waste of time for me to go and see him.”
The son had become such a rogue. The mother was miserable. The son never came to see them. Finally the father died. Then the mother was all alone.
In the course of time, the rich son wanted his own son to get a higher education.
But his wife said, “I do not want our son to have a higher education. He has earned his high school diploma. That is enough. Now he should look for a job.”
The husband said, “My son should get an ordinary job? No, no! He has to be well educated! At this time if he gives up his studies, if he no longer goes to school, he will have no future. He has to be a great scholar like me. He has to become very rich.”
The wife pleaded, “Can you not see what you have done to your father? Your father did so much for you, but you did not care for him at all. Then he became old and he died. Will our son also not behave like you? He will become very well educated, rich. Then, you will become old. What you have done to your father, your son will also do to you. He will live with his own wife and son very happily. But he will not pay any attention to you.”
After listening to his wife’s words, the rich man felt some pangs in his heart. He agreed to go to the village with his wife to see his mother. When he saw his poor, old mother, he began crying.
His mother told him, “Son, at last you have come! Better late than never.”
Then the mother embraced her daughter-in-law and said, “You have so much wisdom! You are right. My son would have suffered the same fate as his own father. My son would also have suffered at the hands of his own son. Thank you very much.”
Eventually, the daughter-in-law saved her own family.
