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Title: Fatma's paradise
Author: Akhtiyar Slewa
Theme: the heart, love, hate, happiness
Story:
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Once upon a time, there was a man living in a village with his wife Fatma. He suffered a lot during his life with her. Fatma was very rude and cruel towards her husband. She also never obeyed him during the whole period of their lives.

One day Fatma got sick for several days. Her husband refused to take her to the doctor. After several of her sickness she passed away. Then, the villagers and her husband buried her in the cemetery of the village. They made funeral to her for three days. After a period of time, Fatma’s husband felt sick too and he died after four days of his sickness. His funeral lasted for three days as well.

After their deaths, Fatma was sent away straight away to paradise in spite of hurting her husband in this world. Her husband was punished by God and he was put in hell for three months only. After he spent his period in hell, the angels took him to paradise where his wife was living there.

When Fatma’s husband arrived at the gate of the paradise, the guards of the paradise said to him, “Your wife Fatma is living here.”
He replied to them and said, “I prefer to go back to hell than living with Fatma in paradise.”