In the morning when the forest was awakening the tree awakened to find it was taller and straighter. Its leaves and branches were straight, and without thorns. As it was admiring its beauty a group of deers wandered by. They spied the small trees soft succulent leaves and wandered over.

Before it went to sleep it prayed to God "I would like leaves of gold."

"Can you believe it a tree that grows leaves of gold..we must take it home with us." said one traveler. "No we will have to get the cart if we plan to do that..an it is a days journey home from here." said the other. "Well we must at least take the leaves so no one else will find the tree and mark the tree well."said another traveler...So they all stripped the tree barren of its leaves.

At night before it went to sleep it prayed again to God. I would like to be as I was for never was I taken advantage of so much nor was I hurt so much.

But at night fall it prayed again to the Great Iam to be as it had been and had not appreciated how God had made it.

And this night the tree asked for forgiveness from Allah for it had not seen what a marvelous thing it had been made in all of Allah's wisdom.