{"id":352,"date":"2021-11-15T11:02:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2021-11-15T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:02:27","slug":"the-boy-without-a-name-idries-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/the-boy-without-a-name-idries-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Without A Name \u2013 Idries Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), This week let me bring to your attention a story from a series of illustrated books for young people, \u2018The Boy without A Name\u2019 <\/em><\/strong> by Idries Shah. Among the many insights that this story introduces to children is the idea that it takes patience<\/em><\/strong> and resolve<\/em><\/strong> to achieve one\u2019s goal in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

This series published by Hoopoe books shares not only wonderful folk stories from a region not often represented in current children\u2019s literature, but there is also an innate potential in them for supporting skills such as prediction, critical thinking and social\/emotional development skills of demonstrating empathy and conflict resolution. Wonderful illustrations and Humor are an integral part of these books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boy without a Name<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once upon a time, long, long, long ago, in a country far from here, there lived a boy who had no name, and you might ask, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t he have a name?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it was like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day he was born, his parents were just about to choose a name for him when a very wise man came to the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a very important boy,\u201d he told them, \u201cI am going to give him something marvelous one day, but I will have to give him his name first. So please don\u2019t give him a name yet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll right,\u201d said his parents, \u201cbut when will he get a name?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI cannot say now,\u201d replied the wise man, \u201cbut remember, he is a very important boy and you must be careful not to give him a name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the parents called him \u201cBenaam,\u201d which means \u201cNameless\u201d in the language of that country. For he was a boy without a name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day Nameless went to see his friend who lived in the next house. \u201cEverybody has a name, and I would like to have one, too. Do you have a name you can give me?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other boy said, \u201cI only have one name. It is Anwar. That\u2019s my name, and I need it. If I gave it to you, what would I do for a name? Besides, what would you give me if I did give you a name? You haven\u2019t got anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a dream I don\u2019t want. I could give you that,\u201d said Nameless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut how can we find out how to get a name and how to pass on a dream from one person to another?\u201d asked Anwar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know,\u201d replied Nameless, let\u2019s go and ask the wise man!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the wise man knew everything, and fortunately he didn\u2019t live very far away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Nameless and Anwar went to his house and they knocked on the door. As soon as he saw them, the wise man said, \u201cCome in, Nameless and Anwar!\u201d even though he had never seen them before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow did you know who we were?\u201d they asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know many things. And, besides, I was expecting you,\u201d said the wise man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSit down here, and I\u2019ll see what I have in my magic boxes,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the boys sat down on cushions beside the wise man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he took up a small box, saying, \u201cThis is a magic box, and it\u2019s absolutely full of all kinds of names. You just see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when he opened the lid of the box, the boys could hear all the names in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were all kinds of names. Names, names, names. Names saying themselves, names saying other names. Names saying names from all the countries of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the wise man picked a name out of the box and handed it to Nameless, and the name jumped onto his hand, ran up his arm and sprang onto his shoulder, and then it went into his ear and right into his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And suddenly he knew that he had a name!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHooray! Hooray! He said, \u201cI\u2019ve got a name. I am Husni!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Husni was his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Anwar cried out, \u201cBut I want the dream that Husni promised me!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPatience, my boy!\u201d said the wise man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he picked up another box and opened its lid. \u201cThis is a box of dreams that people don\u2019t want,\u201d he said. \u201cYou just stroke your head to take the dream out of it, Husni and then put the dream into this box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Husni did so, and, sure enough, when he stroked his head he found that the dream came into his hand, and when he put his hand down near the box, the dream popped into the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wise man took up another box, and he opened the lid and said, \u201cThis box is full of wonderful dreams!\u201d And the two boys could see all sorts of marvelous dreams inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wonderful, wonderful dreams!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am going to give you one dream each,\u201d said the wise man. And then he asked them each to pick a dream. And they did. And the dreams, as soon as they caught hold of them, ran up their arms, onto their shoulders, into their ears and right into their heads, just as Husni\u2019s name had done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And after that, forever and ever, Husni had a name\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the two boys, Husni and Anwar, always had wonderful dreams.        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can buy your copy from any of the bookstores near you or via any on-line portal selling books or also by clicking the following link:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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