The story of  wisdom of the Egyptian farmer


The complaints of the pious peasant appeared in the Middle Kingdom era, the golden age of the ancient Egyptian literature, which provided humanity with two of the finest literary texts of the world, namely the complaints of the peasant and the story of the Egyptian writer Sinouhi.
The pharaoh raised his complaint to the head of the court in nine pleadings when he was looted by a senior state official.
The nine arguments that are attributed to the noble peasant are of wisdom and supreme human values, which makes them masterpieces of world literature.
One of the aspects that many people do not pay attention to in the story of the peasant is that the head of the court, Ransa Ibn Miro, when he received the first complaint from the peasant, went to the king and told him that he had received a complaint from a peasant who said: The king ordered the head of the court not to respond to the pharaoh and said, "To continue his speech, you have to keep silent, and his word comes to us ... to hear it, he cares about the requirements of his life, his wife and his children."
The king ordered ten loaves (3 kilos of barley) and two bars of beer a day. The head of the court gave them to one of his followers to bring them to the farmer's house without knowing the source of the tender.
The peasant continued his complaint, demanding justice and judicial investigation in his complaint.
The first response from the head of the court posed a threat to the peasant. The chief of the court said to him: "Do these things that belong to you love you from being arrested by my servants?"
But the threat did not frighten the farmer, who continued to complain until the number of his pleadings reached nine pleadings.
The dispatch of the nine complaints took a period of time during which the farmer would receive quantities of bread and beer, perhaps up to the amount of grain stolen by the greedy employee who looted his property.
It was not the aim of the peasant farmer of his nine arguments is to get what was stolen from him.
The goal was not to recover the stolen physical value, but the goal was to apply the law to the greedy employee who had stolen his property. The establishment of justice and the establishment of a state of law was the goal of that story and of the arguments of the eloquent peasant eloquent.
Maat was one of the most important values ​​of ancient Egypt, because the laws of Maat are the laws of balance and balance that keep the universe from falling into the abyss of chaos, and it also keeps the earth from turning into chaos and darkness.
The ruler was responsible for establishing the ma'at (justice) in the land
It is the peasant who says to the head of the court:
Do not say that you are lying
Do not sin because you are right
Look, you and the balance are one, leaning toward you
Do not deviate from the straight path
Punish the thief, this greedy is not great
Let your tongue be the straight indicator of the balance
And weight your heart
And your lips are the arms of Kftah
When you ignore the aggressor, who will resist evil then?

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