From the arabicprose tumblr:
The wali said: Yes. I sent to you to ask your advice on an important matter, and no one can do this but you.
Juha said: Go ahead, my lord. I am at your service.
The wali said: They told me that you have a strange ability to teach donkeys to do extraordinary things.
Juha said: Whoever said that was truthful, my lord.
The wali got up and accompanied Juha to the palace's stock pen and brought before Juha a handsome donkey and said: What do you think of this donkey; it and its excellence have been protected by superior care, apart from any of the others of my horses and donkeys.
Juha said: Truly it is a fine donkey and deserves care, apart from others.
The wali said: Can you teach it to read and write?
Juha thought for a while and then said in surprise: Reading and writing! A donkey, read and write! Ah, I understand...I understand...you want me to teach the donkey...this donkey. It's a simple matter, but it will take a long time and require enormous effort.
The wali said: I will let you stay here during the period of its instruction and give you sufficient food and necessities of living and will give you a monthly salary like that of the greatest employees of the palace.
Juha said: But it will take ten years to give the wali's donkey a suitable education!
The wali said: But if the period ends and you have not taught it [to read and write], there will be a severe punishment!
Juha said: We are agreed, my lord.
While Juha was walking in the street, he met one of his relatives, who mocked him, saying: You are the stupidest, Juha. Aren't you afraid of the punishment of the wali if you don't teach the donkey?
And Juha said to him: O stupid one. I agreed with him on ten years, and in that period, either I will die or the wali will die or the donkey will die!
دخل جحا قصر الوالي فسلم عليه وقال له : أخبروني بأنك أرسلت في طلبي يا سيدي الوالي ..!Juha entered the castle of the wali and said: they told me that you sent to ask for me, O Wali.
قال الوالي: نعم .. فقد أرسلت إليك لأستشيرك في أمر هام ولن يقدر عليه إلا أنت ..!
قال جحا : تفضل ياسيدي .. أنا في خدمتك !
قال الوالي : أخبروني بأنك لديك قدرة عجيبة على تعليم الحمير أفعالا خارقة للعادة ..!
قال جحا : صدق من قال لك ذلك يا مولاي ..!
قام الوالي واصطحب جحا لحظيرة القصر وعرض على جحا حمارا مليحا ، وقال لجحا : ما رأيك في هذا الحمار الذي احتفظ به وأوليه عناية فائقة دون غيره من خيلي وحميري ..؟
قال جحا : حقا .. إنه حمار مليح ويستحق الرعاية والعناية دون غيره ..!
قال الوالي : هل تستطيع تعليمه الكتابة والقراءة ..؟
فكر جحا قليلا وقال مندهشا: الكتابة والقراءة ..! الحمار يكتب ويقرأ .. ! أه فهمت .. فهمت .. تريدني أعلم الحمار .. هذا أمر بسيط ولكنه يحتاج لوقت طويل وصبر وجهود جبارة ..!
قال الوالي : سأجعلك تقيم هنا في القصر طوال مدة تعليمه ولك ما يكفيك من الطعام ولوازم الإقامة وسأجعل لك راتبا شهريا مثل أكبر موظفي القصر ..!
قال جحا : ولكن ذلك يحتاج لعشر سنوات حتى يتعلم حمار الوالي تعليما يليق به.. !
قال الوالي: ولكن إذا انتهت المدة ولم تعلمه سيكون عقابي لك شديدا جدا ..!
قال جحا : اتفقنا يا مولاي ..!
وبينما جحا ماشيا في الشارع ، لقيه أحد أقاربه فسخر منه قائلا : يا لك من أحمق يا جحا .. ألم تخش من عقاب الوالي إذا لم تعلم الحمار ..؟
فقال له جحا : يا أحمق .. أنا اتفقت معه على عشر سنوات وفي هذه المدة إما أن أموت أنا أو يموت الوالي أو يموت الحمار ..! ”
The wali said: Yes. I sent to you to ask your advice on an important matter, and no one can do this but you.
Juha said: Go ahead, my lord. I am at your service.
The wali said: They told me that you have a strange ability to teach donkeys to do extraordinary things.
Juha said: Whoever said that was truthful, my lord.
The wali got up and accompanied Juha to the palace's stock pen and brought before Juha a handsome donkey and said: What do you think of this donkey; it and its excellence have been protected by superior care, apart from any of the others of my horses and donkeys.
Juha said: Truly it is a fine donkey and deserves care, apart from others.
The wali said: Can you teach it to read and write?
Juha thought for a while and then said in surprise: Reading and writing! A donkey, read and write! Ah, I understand...I understand...you want me to teach the donkey...this donkey. It's a simple matter, but it will take a long time and require enormous effort.
The wali said: I will let you stay here during the period of its instruction and give you sufficient food and necessities of living and will give you a monthly salary like that of the greatest employees of the palace.
Juha said: But it will take ten years to give the wali's donkey a suitable education!
The wali said: But if the period ends and you have not taught it [to read and write], there will be a severe punishment!
Juha said: We are agreed, my lord.
While Juha was walking in the street, he met one of his relatives, who mocked him, saying: You are the stupidest, Juha. Aren't you afraid of the punishment of the wali if you don't teach the donkey?
And Juha said to him: O stupid one. I agreed with him on ten years, and in that period, either I will die or the wali will die or the donkey will die!
