Odina Yolchiyeva
Father Kasim lived in a remote village of the Zomin Mountains. Kasim was an enlightened father with white hair in his hair, who had reached ninety years of age. Father Kasim had five daughters and five sons, all of whom were educated and married. He was one of the happy families with abundant livelihood. Father Kasim had suffered a lot until this day.
When the war broke out at his very young age, he participated in the war like all his peers in his village, and one of his legs was crushed by a tank, leaving him without a leg. When the war ends and Kasim returns home, his family will be happy to see his father. Seeing that Kasim was left without a leg, his mother cried, but she did not tell her son about it. Seeing Kasim father walking on crutches, the people of the village began to call him not “Kasim ata”, but “Kasim lame”. Father Kasim is very upset about this. One day, Kasim’s father’s parents bought an artificial leg for his son. Now Kasim doesn’t even need to walk on crutches. Early in the morning, during breakfast, his parents tell Kasim that he should marry someone. Father Kasim is very happy about this, but: “If I were lame, who would give me their daughter?” Said. Then his mother said, “I will find you a bride myself,” and went to matchmaking. Then the girl’s parents say: “Okay, let them meet, if they like each other, we will start the wedding.” Two young people met on the bank of riverside. Knowing that Kasim father is lame, Nazira laughs at him and says: “I will not touch a lame man.” This made Kasim father’s heart broken. When they found out that their son was lame no matter where they went, no one would give him their daughter. Even: “Let this lame take care of himself first. How is his wife doing?” There will be those who say. Kasim’s father goes to a friend’s party and says that he wants to get his son married, but no one wants to give him his daughter. Then his friend cheered him up by saying: “I’ll give you my daughter, if he was lame, he was lame for our country.” Kasim father is blessed with a smart, intelligent, and polite girl named Donokhan. Throughout their lives, she never admits his lameness. After Kasim got married, he was invited to work. Look at this, it will not be called “Kasim is lame” but “Kasim is rich.”.
One day, when Father Kasim was walking around the market, he saw a familiar face. A familiar face is running away from Father Kasim. This was Nazira, who showed her lameness on his face. Nazira, whose hands are wrinkled, her face is wrinkled, and her hair is white, talks to him for a while. Nazira could not look him in the eyes and was ashamed of what she said at that time and said: “Allah punished me for what I said to you, my marriage was not good, I buy potatoes and feed my children. I regret not marrying you.’ Father Kasim did not know whether to feel sorry or happy about this. As he walked home, he realized that no matter in this world goes unanswered, and he thought that every person would be rewarded or punished for their good and bad deeds.
Kasim father and Donokhan lived as a happy family.
A LIAR
The truth is bitter, and the lie is sweet,
They say babies don’t lie.
Maybe it’s easy to live a lie
Maybe a lie makes a little lust.
God does not love a liar.
Some people do not understand this.
Truth is not a rest for a liar
Lies every day.
Lie after lie,
But its life is short, and it must be crushed
Our wise crowd also repeats every moment,
“One day, the false word will come out of the collar.”*
*Uzbek folk proverb
The writer Odina Yolchiyeva was born on May 9, 2008 in the city of Gulistan, Syrdarya region of the Republic of Uzbekistan. 9th grade student of creative school named after Halima Khudoyberdiyeva. Scientific articles were published in international conferences in India, Germany, America, Turkey, Spain. His poems and stories have been published in the collections “Oltin avlod qo‘shiqlari”, “Ijod bog‘idan guldasta”, “Ko‘ngil qo‘shiqlari”, newspapers and magazines. Also, the poems of the poet Husniddin Hayit were published in the translation of Odina in the newspaper “MT. Kenya times” and the magazines “Raven cage”.
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