The Knight Antara

The Knight Antara 

   Antara Ibn Shadad was a brave knight who didn’t lose any battle. He was so generous that gave money to the poor and defend his tribe against raiders. He loved his cousin ‘ Abella’

           And wanted to marry her ,but her father refused as Antara was black and his mother was a maid.Antara went to his uncle and told him that there are nothing wrong in a man with black skin or a man that his mother worked as a maid, but his uncle refused and told him that he was poor and don’t have any money.

     And if you wanted to marry my daughter , her dowry is about  a thousand camel.Antara proved at his uncle’s condition and travel to king ‘ Noman’s land’ , avery far distance from his home through hardest and heated desert to buy the camels and achieve his proof. When the king watched Antara , he admired his courage and asked him to join the army to fight with him; Antara  approved and fighted lots of wars with him.

After Antara had fighted with the troops of king Noman , the war was ended and king Noman  achieved his victory with the power of Antara and his fabulous courage , he fulfilled his promise to Antara and gave him a thousand camel from the finest ones.

Antara take the camels and went back to his country to offer his present to his uncle and marry his daughter. On his way , Antara faced  sea of sands so, he fell in it and was almost going to die .At this moment , a group of travelersor caravans was going in the same way , they saw Antara , falling in the sea of sands , they hurried to rescue him before sinking . Now , Antara was rescued by the travelers ,so he thanked them for their help. Antara went on his way till he reached his town.

As he returned home , he found that the enemies attacked his town and imprisoned women and children; Antara followed the enemies and fighted them till they escaped and he saved his family and his cousin. Finally, his uncle realized what a brave man he was and how carefully achieved his goal , so he approved on marrying his daughter to Antara.

Antara gave his uncle the thousand camels that he asked and he was happy to held a great wedding party where he offered lots of food and camels meat for the poor to eat.

Antara married his beloved cousin ‘Abella’ and lived happily everafter.