Liibaan abdi cigaal (Faraxsane) Barta Aqriska iyo fahanka
FEATHERY BACKMAN
There was a man that people called "Dubkaa Baalow" which meant feathery back who lived in a community. He was also the achief of that community. This is a tale of how he got his name. One day, the townspeople were invited to come together for a meeting. An announcer called loudly, " Listen people, there will be a general meeting and you are all invited to attend. A very important matter will be discussing and valuable things will be distributed among the people from all the communities. All the people in the area gathered at the meeting site. As people were discussing and interchanging ideas. Dubkaa Baalow became sleepy and fell asleep. After a long debate, the people in the community concluded their discussing and agreement on how to share things was reached. Dubkaa Baalow was sleeping and neglected his responsilities. After the meeting ended and elders were about to leave, they saw Dubkaa Baalow snoozing. They hung feathers on his back. And left him there alone. When he woke up, he looked around and saw no one. He started traveling back to his home.
On the way he met a group of men who laughed at him as they were greeting him. He became suspicious and asked, "You men why are you laughing at me they replied, "what are these feathery hanging on your back?" He looked at his back, saw the feathers, and said, "Today, feathers were hung on everybody's back just like this " when he returned to his community, The people asked many question, "What happened at the meeting?" How was it: what has been agreed by the elders? Where is our share of what was distributed?" He knew nothing about what happened at the meeting because he was sleeping through most of it, so he said,"Nothing was discussed today. People went there and feathers were hung on everybody's back. "Some people' laughed at him and some were astonished.
From then on, he has known as Dubkaa Baalow.
What do we learn from this story? Be responsible and do not neglect your responsibilities and duties be easily explained by someone with more knowledge about the situation.
