This is a story from pre-Islam era. It tells a melancholic love story. It’s a story of love and sacrifice. The main characters are Urwa, Afraa (the woman he loves), and his uncle (Afraa’s father). This is one of the short stories that that tell about certain value.
Urwa lived with his uncle. Urwa and Afraa grew up together and loved each other since childhood. After many years, Urwa proposed to Afraa but he couldn’t meet Afraa’s father requests as he was poor.
Afraa’s father asked Urwa to travel abroad so that he could afford the money needed for Afraa’s dowry. Urwa traveled abroad and after a while he became very rich. He came back happily to his homeland because he got the money his uncle requested as a dowry.
Urwa daydreamed of a fairy tale of himself with Afraa. Unfortunately, his uncle told him that Afraa died, he took him to a grave and told Urwa that it was Afraa’s grave.
Urwa broke down and mourned over his lost love. Surprisingly, Urwa found out that Afraa was alive and she got married to an Umayyad man from the Levant who lived in the neighborhood. This man Saw Afraa, he fell in love with her, proposed to her, he got married Afraa forcefully and then they left to The Levant.
Urwa got mad at his uncle because he pushed him to travel and he falsified Afraa’s death. Urwa traveled to The Levant and he stayed as a guest at Afraa’s husband house. Afraa’s husband had no idea of the love story between Urwa and Afraa. He knew him as Afraa’s cousin. Afraa’s husband didn’t tell her of Urwa’s visit.
Urwa thought of a trick to tell Afraa about his visit so he threw his ring in the milk pot and he sent her the pot with one of the maids. Afraa identified the ring and she realized that the guest was Urwa; her cousin and first love.
The two lovers met after many years of separation and grieve. Having a good reception, Urwa returned home to keep Afraa’s name clean. Before his departure, Afraa gave him a scarf of her as a souvenir.
After his return, Urwa got very sick. He fainted many times and he developed pulmonary tuberculosis. Urwa wrote many poems in a memory of his lost love. Urwa hallucinated of Afraa while he was dying. Shortly, Urwa died of is grieve and disease. Afraa knew of Urwa’s death. She got sick and died after a short time of Urwa’s death.
Afraa was buried in a grave next to Urwa’s grave. Two beautiful trees grew up wrapping each other between the two graves. The trees fulfilled the lovers’ old dream of living together.
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