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After her father died, the stepmother took away Zahra’s beautiful
clothes and gave her old clothes and rags to wear. Then she took away
her bedroom and made her sleep in the attic. From that time on Zahra
was ordered to do all the housework.
One day, as the poor orphan was tending the fireplace, some live
cinders fell on her dress and burned holes into it. Trying to put out the
cinders, she became covered with soot. Her stepsisters began to laugh
at her. ‘Cinder-ella! Cinder-ella!’ they teased and taunted. After that
they no longer used her real name, but only called her ‘Cinderella’.
The orphaned child felt very sad. She missed her mother and father very
much. She often thought of them. When she prayed, she would make
special du‘as in sujud. “Du‘as made in sujud reach Allah swiftly,” her mother had told her. “Be patient, my child,” her father had encouraged.
Cinderella was always patient. She read the Qur’an every day and
comforted herself with the words of God and stories of God’s Messengers.
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