Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
كان ياما كان في قديم الزمان كان في شاب اسمه علاء الدين، و كان هاد الشب من عيلة فقيرة، و كان عم علاء الدين شخص أنانيّ و ما بحب غير حاله ، وفي يوم من الأيام راح علاء الدين مع عمه عشان يدوروا على كنز في المغارة، و طلب العم من علاء الدين إنه يدخل على المغارة، و يجيب الكنز إلّي جوا. كان علاء الدين خايف كتير، و فجأة اتسكر باب المغارة، و حاول عم علاء الدين يفتح الباب بس ما قدر، فتركه و رجع على بيته
ضل علاء الدين بالمغارة، و لما كان يمشي بين الكنوز لفت انتباهه مصباح قديم كتير، فمسكه ومسح عنه الغبرة، فجأة المصباح صار يتحرك و طلع منه مارد كبير و ضخم، و شكر المارد علاء الدين لأنه طلّعه من المصباح و حكى لعلاء الدين : شو بدك أعملّك عشان أشكرك لأنك طلعتني من المصباح ؟ حكاله علاء الدين بدي أطلع من هاي المغارة. و بالفعل طلع علاء الدين من المغارة
كان في بلد علاء الدين سلطان اسمه “قمر الدين”، و كان عنده بنت كتير حلوة و اسمها “ياسمين” و كان علاء الدين دايماً بشوفها قاعدة في البلكونة، و كان بحبّها كتير و نفسه يتزوجها، بس كان يعرف أنه زواجهم مستحيل، لأنه شاب فقير، و أكيد السلطان رح يرفض يعطي بنته لشاب فقير
رجع علاء الدين لبيته و معه المصباح السّحري، حكى لأمه القصة و بعدين طلب علاء الدين من المارد كتير مصاري و ذهب و هداية عشان يخطب “ياسمين” بنت السلطان، بس زعل علاء الدين كتير لما السلطان رفضه لأنه بنته مخطوبة لابن الوزير، و في يوم عرس الأميرة “ياسمين”، طلب علاء الدين من المارد أنه يخلي الأميرة تشوف ابن الوزير شاب غبي، و ترفض الزواج منه، و فعلاً عمل هيك المارد، و ما اتزوجته
راح علاء الدين مرّة تانية للسلطان عشان يطلب إيد الأميرة “ياسمين” و وافق السلطان بشرط أنه يبني علاء الدين قصر كبير عشان يسكن فيه مع الأميرة، فطلب علاء الدين من المارد أنه يبني قصر، و بنى المارد القصر، و تزوّج علاء الدين من الأميرة ، و سكن هو و زوجته الأميرة و أمه بالقصر
رجع عم علاء الدين على البلدة، و عرف أنه علاء الدين ما مات بالمغارة، و أنه طلع منها و معه المصباح السّحري و صار غني
فكر عم علاء الدين بخطة و عمل حاله بياع مصابيح، و راح لقصر علاء الدين، و أقنع الأميرة انها تبدّل المصباح القديم بمصباح جديد، و وافقت الأميرة ، لأنها ما بتعرف انه مصباح سحري، و لما رجع علاء الدين للقصر عرف شو صار، و عرف انه عمه هو إلي عمل هيك، و حكى علاء الدين لزوجته الأميرة “ياسمين” كل القصة
راح علاء الدين لبيت عمه بحجّة أنه بده يشوفه و يسلم عليه، و قدر علاء الدين ياخد المصباح بدون ما يشوفه عمه، و بعد ما أخده رجع للقصر و طلّع المارد من المصباح و حكاله انت حر، بس حكاله المارد أنا ما بدي الحريّة، بدي أضل أخدمك لأنك شاب صادق، و كتير كويس
و عاش علاء الدين و زوجته الأميرة و أمه و المارد السحري حياة حلوة مع بعض
Once upon a time, there was a young man named Aladdin. This young man was from a poor family, and Aladdin’s uncle was a selfish person who loved nothing but his condition. One day, Aladdin went with his uncle in search of a treasure in the cave. The uncle asked Aladdin to enter the cave and bring the treasure which is inside. Aladdin was very afraid, and suddenly the door of the cave shut. Aladdin’s uncle tried to open the door, but he could not, so he left and returned to his house.
Aladdin got lost in the cave, and when he was walking among the treasures, a very old lamp caught his attention, so he held it and wiped the dust off it. Suddenly the lamp started moving and a huge genie emerged from it. The genie thanked Aladdin for taking him out of the lamp and said to Aladdin: What do you want? What should I do to thank you for taking me out of the lamp? Aladdin said, I want to get out of this cave. Aladdin actually came out of the cave.
There was a sultan in Aladdin’s country whose name was “Qamar al-Din”, and he had a very beautiful daughter named “Jasmine”. Aladdin would always see her sitting on the balcony, and he loved her very much and wanted to marry her, but he knew that their marriage was impossible, because he was poor, and the Sultan would certainly refuse to give his daughter to a poor young man.
Aladdin returned home with the magic lamp. He told his mother the story, and then Aladdin asked the genie for a lot of money, gold, and presents so that he could propose to “Jasmine,” the Sultan’s daughter. But Aladdin was very upset when the Sultan rejected him because his daughter got engaged to the minister’s son. And the day of princess Jasmine’s marriage, Aladdin asked the genie to let the princess see the minister’s son as a stupid young man, and she would refuse to marry him. And the genie actually did that, and she did not marry him.
Aladdin went to the Sultan again to ask for the hand of Princess Jasmine, and the Sultan agreed to the condition that he build a large palace so that he could live in it with the princess. So Aladdin asked the genie to build a palace, and the genie built the palace, and Aladdin married the princess. He, his wife, the princess, and his mother lived in the palace.
Aladdin’s uncle returned to the town and learned that Aladdin did not die in the cave, but that he had left it with the magic lamp and had become rich.
Aladdin’s uncle thought of a plan and acted as a lamp seller. He went to Aladdin’s palace and convinced the princess that she would exchange the old lamp for a new one. The princess agreed, because she did not know that it was a magic lamp. When Aladdin returned to the palace, he knew what had happened. It was his uncle who did this, and Aladdin told his wife, Princess Jasmine, the whole story.
Aladdin went to his uncle’s house under the pretext that he wanted to see him and greet him, and Aladdin was able to take the lamp without his uncle seeing it, and after he took it, he returned to the palace and the genie came out of the lamp and Aladdin said, “You are free,” but the genie said, “I don’t want freedom, I want to keep serving you because you are an honest and very good man”.
Aladdin, his wife, the princess, his mother, and the magic genie lived a nice life together.
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Hanan translated this story into Levantine Arabic.
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