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266-1001 Nights: Good Night and Good Luck

Myths and Legends

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Moruf Lucked Out, a Cobbler?

Maruf was a homeless boy who wandered from city to city until he found one where people were generous enough to lend him and naive enough to believe his story. He used that money to actually buy goods, turned a profit on those, paid back the lenders and built his business from there. With a lot of business acumen and a little luck, he was able to grow into the merchant that was going to help moruf. Moruf already looked the part in the clothes, and he handed maruf a thousand dinars, 20 times what tinager ali had. All moruf had to do was make a show of giving those away to the poor. But Ali had taught him that lie

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