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The story we are hearing today happened in Sudan, but guys, it is a story full of mystery, horror, and a mystery. You can’t imagine listening to this strange story.
In the year of Al-Fin in Sudan, specifically in Khartoum, the capital, there was a simple neighborhood called Jebel Awliya. In this place, in one of the alleys, there was a house belonging to a family called the Abdul Wali family. Abdul Wali is a man, thank God, who is almost 60 years old. This man spent his life in the field of education. He was a teacher and one of the kindest and best teachers in the area. That is why all the people of the neighborhood loved, respected, and considered him a leader or a big figure in their neighborhood.
Abdul Wali had a son named Al-Tayeb. Al-Tayeb was a university student who graduated and entered the College of Law, but things did not go as he wanted. Because of his love for the police, the boy applied to them and they considered him a normal military uniform that they had. He was hired in the detective department. Thank God, this boy was also like his father. He was popular in the neighborhood and had a sister named Al-Taf. Al-Taf was a university student who had finished her studies and was waiting to get a job at any time.
Anyway, my dear friends, the details that we are giving you now are very important so that you know this family. Days passed, and Abdul Wali was accustomed, in the evening, like most Sudanese people, to go out to sleep in the courtyard. In Sudan, thank God, you know that during the day the temperature is very high, but at night, because most of the areas in Sudan are beautiful, dusty areas suitable for agriculture, the weather is cold and pleasant. So, most of the people in the houses go out to sleep in the courtyard.
Abdul Wali was used to it being around 8 pm. He was sitting in the courtyard with his wife, daughter, and son. They brought dinner, and he was having dinner. They were having dinner happily and drinking tea. But the father, Abdul Wali, called his son aside and said, “Listen to me, sir. There is a problem that has been going on for two days, and I am hesitant to talk to you about it.”
He said to him, “What is it, father? What is happening?” Abdul Wali replied, “Listen, listen, no. I don't want this fanaticism of yours. I know that the whole neighborhood respects you and admires you and appreciates you because you are a man who has your place. But listen to me, about three days ago, you know that I like to sleep in the courtyard, unlike your mother and sister who sleep inside the house. Between you and me, while I was sleeping, it was almost midnight, and I saw a man sitting and peeking out from above the courtyard. Who is he? Who is this who dared to come to our house, knowing that I work in investigations? Who is this madman who would come to our house?”
He said to him, “I am telling you, calm down, calm down, boy. I do not want your mother or sister to hear what I say and be afraid.” He said to him, “Okay.” Then he said to him, “One night, when I saw this man hovering in and out of the courtyard, I opened the door and went out, but I didn’t find anyone. I went to take a look around the house when I was shocked by the sight of the same young man. He seemed to be hovering around your sister’s window.”
Your sister is crazy. Okay, my father, how is my sister crazy? Do you think she knows you? A young man said, “No, no, my dear, she is my daughter. She was raised well. No, no, no, this is a thief. No one who has anything to do is unemployed.”
Anyway, listen, I want you to pay attention and focus with me because yesterday I sat and waited. Glory be to God, this young man never came. The good one, go crazy, guys, go crazy. I’m telling you, the boy is in the police force, and a guy came to sneak into their house. What audacity this person has, that he dares to stand in front of Abdul Wali’s house just so a thief, a con man, or someone I don’t know what else he has an ulterior motive can come and burst into their house. Crazy, crazy.
The boy said to him, “Listen, dad, tonight is over. I won’t go out with my friends. I will stay here until I catch him.” This man is not guiding him. He says, “You are from the devil. Don’t scare your mother and sister.” But you know, guys, the boy was very upset. He sat with his father and waited until nightfall. Even though his father was asleep and comfortable in the courtyard, the boy couldn’t sleep. He turned off the lights and waited, saying, “Oh God, oh God, let me see this happen.”
Overlooking section, “By God, I want to empty the gun I have with me in his head.” But the time has come, the hour has come, and no one came at all until our good friend went to sleep immediately and did not feel himself until dawn. His father was waking him up, “Oh good, oh good, you are sleeping.” He said to him, “Where, father? I am sitting.”
“I swear to God I might not have had a good night's sleep half an hour ago.” He said to him, “Tell me, did you see someone?” He said to him, “Dad, it seems you're imagining it. I swear to God I waited and opened the door and went out and came back. No one came. You were just dreaming.” He said to him, “I swear I'm sure, I'm sure I saw someone more.”
Once, Taltal came to the house. They said, “Well, Dad, it seems he didn’t come tonight, but don’t worry, I’m with you.” The first night passed, and Tayeb was used to leaving his family every night and going out to spend the night with whomever he wanted. His cousin’s name was Moataz, the same age as him, and the same story. But this Moataz was an unemployed person who worked two days a week.
The three slept, the boy had a business mind, but praise be to God, he was used to extravagance. Tayeb loved to stay up late with him. They would sit in one of the bachelor houses where Moataz lived. Tayeb would go and stay up late with him and not come back until two o’clock after midnight. But since the day his father had not told him a story, one night, a man would come and peek into the courtyard and into the house. The boy couldn’t rest at all.
The next day, he met his cousin. He said to him, “What’s the matter, man? Why didn’t you come yesterday?” He said, “For God’s sake, man, leave it to God. Yesterday, I had a night shift.” He said to him, “A night shift, a night shift? What? The detectives gave you a mission?” He said, “No, detectives, they gave me a mission, nothing. The mission that my father gave me.”
He said to him, “What's the matter? What's happening?” He said to him, “Listen, good man. It turns out that a vile person from the neighborhood is coming to visit us. He visited our courtyard.” He said, “Yes, by God.” My father said he saw him more than once, and my father turned out not to be him. The shock was... He saw what had come from behind our house and was searching in the windows. It seems that he had reached the room where my sister was sleeping.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, his cousin went crazy. He said to him, “Okay, this is serious talk. What are you going to do?” He said to him, “What am I going to do? I sit in the courtyard every night, and I swear to God I won’t hold the gun. If I see him, I will shoot him in the head.” He said to him, “Well done, well done, you are truly a scoundrel. If you see this scoundrel, do not hesitate at all and listen to whatever you want. I am here. Do you want something from me?”
He said to him, “No, no, no, you just stay home and relax, and do not let anyone know that I come to stay up late at your place. Do you understand?” No, no, he said, “Don’t worry, don’t worry.” The second day, guys, the same story was repeated. This kind boy was sitting in the yard, and his father was sleeping and waiting and waiting, but nothing happened.
The third and fourth days, the same story, until the fifth day came. Around 8 pm, as they were accustomed to, the family, the father, who is Abdul Wali, brought his wife and daughter and his good son, set out dinner for you, and these beans and these sweet things. They sat outside, and Abdul Wali said, “Oh Wali, where is the shayeh? Where do they want the shayeh? These shayeh are the most delicious cuts of meat you can ever try, guys. Go to any Sudanese restaurant and order the shayeh. I, in particular, am addicted to this food in a way you can’t imagine.”
Sweet meat fried in oil with spices is something very nice. I am finishing this episode, and there is a Khartoum restaurant next to me. I will go to them directly. Anyway, guys, after that, they were sitting and having dinner happily until there was a knock on the door. Of course, the doctor, because he is a military man and is stationed at the investigations department, was startled immediately.
The father looked at him and said to him, “It’s strange. Whoever comes to us at this time, meaning it is late, and he has never looked at us.” They said to him, “Don’t worry, father. I will open the door.” The good man, who is the boy, opens the door. Guys, the family is shocked that their son has turned into a frozen piece of wood. In his place, the father calls Nadia. “What’s wrong, good man, who is knocking on the door?”
Who is this boy? Why doesn't he answer? The one who was knocking on the door was a girl, guys, a girl who was more beautiful than you can imagine. She looked like a gazelle. This good man, despite all the girls he had seen, had never seen a girl as beautiful as her. He was staring at the girl, shocked, and the girl said to him, “Good evening, I’m sorry, brother. I’m sorry I bothered you. Is this a family home, not a bachelor’s home?”
He said to her, “Yes, a bachelor's house. No, we are a family house. Who are you and who do you want?” She said to him, “Excuse me, can you call me? I mean, the lady of the house you have. You mean, call me, any lady you have?” The boy was dizzy and went back to that. He said, “Mom, come here, you, my sweetheart, and my sister. Come and see. There is a girl standing at the door.”
The mother came, and his sister, and he was looking at this girl. She is 23 years old, oh God, how beautiful she is, a beauty queen standing at the door, holding a bag, looking tired, exhausted, and afraid. Abdul Wali got up, what is happening? He reached the door and saw the girl, “Welcome, welcome, welcome, my daughter, come in.” She said, “Excuse me.”
“Excuse me, guys, I swear to God I am sorry, and I know that I came and bothered you at this time, but by God my circumstances are difficult, and I do not know what made me knock on this door.” They said, “Shame on you, my daughter. Come in. Since you have reached the door, come in.” They let this girl in, even to Abu Abdul Wali, the teacher and role model who was an ascetic.
In life, he began to look at this girl and say, “Oh, where were you, wood, when we were carpenters? Where, where were you a long time ago? I passed by apparently this Umm al-Tayeb, but welcome, my daughter. Where did you come here and whose daughter are you?” She said to him, “Listen to me, uncle. I swear to God, I am a girl with difficult circumstances. I live here.”
In the north, he said, “Ugh, in the north.” She said, “Yes, I live in the north there.” I lived with my father and my uncles and the family because there was a disagreement between my father and my mother, and my mother was originally lazy in the area there. Frankly, my uncles and my father bothered me, and I hated living with them. My father threw me out and said, “Go away to your mother's family.”
I took the money, my bag, and the clothes. I got on a bus, and it stopped in Khartoum because if we got to Khartoum, we had to take another bus to Kasala. He said to him, “Yes, it’s known. This talk is about party stops.” She said, “Yes, uncle. And because I’m a girl, I mean, I’m at God’s door. I got here hungry. I asked them. I told them, ‘This bus is running.’ Laziness died. They said that there was about an hour left.”
The girl said, “I had a chance. Let me find a restaurant to eat a sandwich because I was dying of hunger.” She said, “Imagine, uncle. I went down and went to this restaurant. I ordered food. After a while, I was surprised that my bag, which contained my gold, money, and everything that belonged to me, was filled with a person.” He stole it from me, and I didn't even notice.
“Where is the madness?” The good man said, “What? We picked you up.” She said, “Yes, by God, we picked you up.” A pickpocket came, but I don't know how. I was sitting in the restaurant, and suddenly the bag disappeared. “Oh, oh, guys,” he said, frustrated. He said to him, “Where? Any place?” She said, “The market near the buses. There is a restaurant there called...”
Nilein Restaurant said to him, “Oh God, Nilein Restaurant, my shift is private. The detectives are there every day because of the pickpockets and gangs. Oh God, oh God, if I catch him, if I catch the person who took your bag, I swear to God I will cut off his hand.” I am telling you, the boy went crazy on the girl and spied on this girl. She is crying, and she said, “Imagine that. Since the day I have been going from place to place, and I don’t know where.”
I went and, glory be to God, I entered this neighborhood and came back. I don’t know what made me come to the door that you have. They said to her, “How is it that you chose our house?” She said, “By God, to be honest, I stopped here at the end of the street, and I saw a committed person like this, and I asked him. I said to him, ‘Who is in the family here? Maybe they will host us tonight.’”
This man told me that the imam of the mosque and that this man’s wife had passed away and that he had no children. He said, “I cannot, my daughter, keep you in my house. This is not good.” But he advised me to come to Abdul Wali’s house, which is your house. They said, “Yes, the imam is right.” This imam is known as Sheikh Bashir. He is really a single man, but my daughter, you are welcome. Relax and enjoy yourself.
The money that was stolen from you... We mourn her, don’t worry. By God, the girl was happy and started to have dinner with them and laugh and sit with the mother and with Latif and with the father, and they started to laugh with each other. The father, guys, took the perfume aside and said to him, “Hey, perfume, what are these looks? I see that your looks at the girl are not normal.”
He said, “By God, father, you have been like this for a long time. You, my mother, tell me that you want me to get married, get married, get married. I didn’t want to get married when I saw this girl, my father. This marriage, my father, I feel that it is no different from the importance of Hajj for a Muslim.” He said to him, “Now, now, you vile one, and you are spending it partying and living your life. You don’t want to get married.”
He said, “By God, my father, from…” I saw this girl, she changed everything about me. He said to her, “Shh, shh, shh, don’t let the girl hear us and be embarrassed in front of us. Be quiet now and don’t say a word.”
Anyway, guys, the girl had dinner with them, and they let her go in and sleep with their daughter that night. Even the father asked his son to distract himself. He said to him, “How, father? You forgot what…” You were telling me that someone would come and show up. He came out to the courtyard, and Tayeb said to him, “Leave us alone with these movements. I know. Don’t make excuses that there are men who come out.”
The men didn’t come back, and maybe I was imagining things. I left the house. It’s not right for us to have a guest. Don’t make her feel embarrassed. Okay, he left. Tayeb went to the bachelor’s apartment where his cousin Moataz was and sat with him. He told him the story, he said: “Oh, Moataz, a girl came to us as if she were a gift from heaven. We didn’t know until she was knocking on the door. By God, Moataz, this girl is so beautiful. What is the disaster, Moataz? This girl was exposed to a bad situation. Imagine, the poor girl got off at the bus stop and her bag was stolen.
If only it was you, Moataz. The one who was robbed or this girl said, ‘May God not make this person successful,’ and I am your cousin, and you say this to me.” He said, “The important thing is, listen, I am coming tonight, not just to stay up late with you. Tonight I will sleep with you. There is a problem.” He said to him, “Oh man, oh man, this is the happiest hour, oh man, the happiest moment, that you are sleeping with me.”
He fixed his bed. They sat there, joking and laughing, staying up late. Glory be to God, Al-Tayeb closed his eyes and went to sleep immediately. Al-Tayeb was counting the hours, wanting the day to come so he could go home and see this beautiful girl.
Anyway, guys, Al-Tayeb went to sleep. He opened his eyes, and, by God, his cousin was not there. Strange, where did he go? He started calling out in the house, “Moataz, Moataz, the boy is not here.” She didn’t pass by. Five minutes later, Moataz entered the house. He said to him, “Where are you? Where are you going? It’s after midnight. What happened?” He said, “By God, I went to the grocery store and woke up the poor grocery store owner from his sleep. I wanted a smoke.”
He said, “May God not grant you success. I woke up the poor grocery store owner. It’s after midnight. We came for a smoke.” He said to him, “Oh brother, what should I do? The mood, the mood is driving me crazy.” They entered the house as soon as the day broke, and the good man ran. He ran to their house. Abu Ha said to him, “You came in the morning. What’s the story? Don’t you have work?”
He said, “No, no, no. I’m on vacation for a week. I’m with you here in the house.” He sat with his family, and they woke up. The girl was having breakfast, and the girl looked at her father and said, “I'm sorry, I swear to God. I came to you yesterday, and I was scared. I don’t know what to do.” They said, “Shame on you, I swear to God, we don’t see you as anything but our own daughter.”
He said, “Okay, guys, I’ll go out and fend for myself.” He said, “No, you fend for yourself. What, by God, you won’t come and stay with us for three days as guests, and if…” The three days are over. We will take the bus ourselves, and Father Abdul Wali will ride next to you on the bus until the lazy one takes you and hands you over to your mother’s family. I guarantee that you will reach home.
She said, “Guys, guys, why do you make me tire you out so much?” Abdul Wali said, “Forbidden, forbidden, why don’t you walk?” She said, “Madam, forbidden, that’s it.” Haram, Haram. The important thing is that the girl sits down and has lunch, and the atmosphere became nice, and this girl was happy and comfortable.
The good man was like a bee, going back and forth, not wanting to leave the house until he heard that the girl is our guest today, and tomorrow she will also be with us. But what? What do you think before the girl leaves that we tell her that I will come with her to take her to her family, and I will ask for forgiveness so that I can tell him and we will propose to you the girl? What do you think?
He said, “Agree, agree, agree, my father, I agree to this girl.” He said to him, “Okay, listen, take your foot off the pedal from the house, take your foot off the pedal. I don’t want you coming back every now and then.” Here he said to him, “Don't worry, don't worry. The important thing is to reassure me. What happened to you yesterday?”
I slept. He said to him, “By God, it's good that you reminded me yesterday. Yes, I slept, but I woke up almost at night and was surprised that the man I was talking to you about came yesterday, Taltal.” He said to him, “Yes, the man is coming, Taltal. Dad, listen. I have my doubts about this boy next to us.”
He said to God, “Who is he?” I told him, “Hisham, Hisham, Hisham. This is the one who is addicted to drugs. The boy next to us is our neighbor’s son. He must have seen the girl come and started looking at us.” They said, “No, our neighbors, don’t wrong them. It is true that their son is a troublemaker and a troublemaker, but not to the point that he looks at us.”
He said to him, “By God, father, if this is not the case...” Boy, I don’t understand. Anyway, guys, evening came, and they all had dinner. The father dismissed the boy and told him, “Listen, go to Moataz and sleep so that the girl can rest.”
The doctor went and sat with Moataz and slept with him. But he was surprised that it was almost midnight when Moataz woke him up. “Get up, get up, El Tayeb, get up,” he told him. “Good, I seek refuge in God. What happened?” He said to him, “Get up, get up, get up. A man from the neighborhood just came and knocked on the door saying, ‘There is a problem at your house.’”
He said to him, “What problem?” He said, “I swear I don’t know. But the man said, ‘Come quickly, there is a problem. There are two people standing at your house.’” Then the good man took the gun. He and his cousin Moataz ran. They ran like crazy. They arrived at the house, but nothing happened. Things were normal, but they noticed that the door was half open.
What's the story? It's late, two after midnight, and the door of our house is open. What's the story? As soon as they got close, guys, he said to his cousin Moataz, "Be patient. Oh, dear, don't open the door like that. Your father is a careful man. He would never sleep and leave the door open. I'm afraid a thief has broken into your house.”
He said, “Okay, what should we do?” He said, “Listen, come on. First, let's make sure there's no more than one. Come on, let's look down from above the courtyard.” As soon as they looked out, they were shocked by a terrifying sight that made them freeze in place.
Imagine, guys, the whole family: the father, who is Abdul Wali, his wife, and his daughter. The two men were as if they were dead, thrown in the yard, each one thrown on the bed. But the shock, what is the shock, is that there were two men with a girl sitting and hovering around them. These two men entered the house as if they were thieves, sitting and searching for anything to steal from the house.
As soon as he came out, he said to him, “What is this, what is the story?” He said, “What?” Darani Al-Dhaher, thieves, said, “Be patient, be patient, be patient.” The good man began to focus. He was shocked by the girl who was with the two of them. This is the girl who came to them, the guest. The girl who came to them a few days ago.
Where is the good man? What is their story? Why are my family in a state of shock? What happened? The good man enters like a madman. They caught the girl before she screamed, and imagine Moataz took her and tied her up immediately. As for Tayeb, he raised the gun and went inside. Whoever sees these two who are searching the house and it seems that they started to take some things, he raised the gun and said, “I hear one movement. I swear to God, the bullet is in your head.”
They said, “Wait a minute, don’t.” He said quickly, “On the ground.” You and him lay down on the ground. As soon as they threw themselves on the ground, Moataz, his father, and his mother came and tied up the two of them and called the police. They came and immediately carried them both and the girl.
After investigations, guys, imagine what happened. It turned out that this girl was involved with the gang, making these films. They always make these films in several areas in Sudan, come and pretend that she is a girl who has traveled and lost her money. She takes advantage of the fact that she is beautiful and pretty, and that the people, as you know, are good.
The people in Sudan welcome any person who is chivalrous and generous and lets her into the house. She takes advantage of the fact that they are asleep at night and sprays a substance on them, a drug that made each one of them fall into a coma. Then they stole everything in the house and left immediately. They took them to the police station, and it turned out that the police had been searching for them for a long time, and there were multiple reports in several cities about the same gang.
The tragedy is that this gang confessed to many things and thefts that they had committed, perhaps during the last five or six years. The story ended here, and Abdul Wali was happy, his wife and Al-Taf’s daughter, and even Tayeb Al-Tayeb considered this a security achievement that he had done for the investigation department that was in Khartoum.
Al-Tayeb returned, and he and Moataz sat down and were happy and thanking him. But Al-Tayeb looked at Moataz and said to him, “Moataz, what’s wrong with you?” He said, “I want to ask you a question: Who do you say is from the neighborhood? He came that night and knocked on your door and told you that there are people at our house.”
He said, “By God, this is him. By God, I don’t know.” Maybe Moataz told him. Moataz admitted who came. Moataz is done. This is a man. It’s true that he is his cousin, but he is a man. Investigations: Moataz told him, “Confess, it’s better for you.” What’s the story?
He said, “By God, since the matter has reached you like this, I will confess to you. You see? The man your father says he will come to the courtyard has been here for a few days. To be honest, my dear, is that me?” I told him yes, he said, “By God, that is me, because I love your sister, and I swear to God I wanted to propose to you officially. By God Almighty, there is nothing between us but good, and excuse me, you are my cousins. I am worried about you, but by God, I used to come at night and chat with Al-Taf.
We would say a few sweet words. I would say to her, “May God bless these eyes,” and she would say to me, “May God bless this curly hair that we used as a washing sponge,” and I would say to her, “May God, my heart, may God bless these pretty fingers. When, God willing, will the Lord of the Worlds grant it to us and we will meet together?”
And the girl, I mean, there was nothing between me and her except words. Your father used to see me. It seems that at night, your father was a little confused. He thought that I was a genie or a human being. I swear to God, I just used to come and see your father sleeping, to make sure that he was asleep, and then I would go and sit with Taf by the window for a while, and we would have a few nice words. Then I left.
I swear to God, my dear, nothing happened between us. Honestly, that night I was taking advantage of the fact that you... He slept with me, and it has been more than a night since I saw the girl. I went directly and was surprised that the girl did not answer me. I knocked on the window once, twice, and three times, but she did not answer me. I went and looked out into the courtyard and saw your family lying down as if they were sheep struck by lightning.
As soon as I saw it, it was as if there were people and a girl sitting there. Come closer and sprinkle something on them. I came right away to wake you up and came back because I was afraid to do something wrong. They were more than me. He said, “May God not grant us success.”
Okay, brother, my sister should have called me a long time ago. On the contrary, if she had asked us to, we would not have said no to you. Imagine, guys, she took Al-Tayeb and his cousin Moataz and they left. To the father, and they told him the story, and the father was dying of laughter and agreed to Moataz’s engagement to the daughter of Al-Taf.
The beautiful, light, funny story ended, although I am still hungry, guys, and I want to catch up now to the Sudanese restaurant. But always a greeting to all the dear ones in Sudan, the people of generosity and goodness, and I consider them, frankly, among the closest people. I love them to my heart. Yes, by God, the people of Sudan are good people.
I ask God to restore security, safety, tranquility, and comfort to Sudan because they are good people and deserve nothing but the best. May God keep you safe. Netflix, the poor ones, is ours, poor Euphrates.