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My innocent child, you’re sinless, and just, Allah, the Lord, is the One you should trust. No one is as merciful, as our Lord, He will light up your path in this world. He is...

Time will pass, I will age and grow old, Hunched, enfeebled and nearly bald. But my soul will stay young, it will never surrender While I nurture the flames of passion and anger. They give...

The effervescent moon over the village rises. Night. Painting the houses silver, bathing fields in light. The people sleep. You cannot hear a peep. They worked from dawn to dusk; their sleep is sweet and...

Haji, your hardships will begin, When Moscow starts to rein you in. When they start getting hard on you, What are you going to do? You thought of yourself as rich and tough, Whatever you...

 (from an American newspaper)   I don’t know how or why, but this I’m told, A little caged mouse fell in a bowl Of milk, swam back and forth, could not escape, The milk was...

   Once there lived a man together with his wife. So often were they troubled by the life. Perhaps it was because they had a goat and a sheep, Which were so thin and even...

(Told by a country boy) I Тhe summer day was hot and sunny, and I was swimming in the lake; A splash of water, games so funny and dives I liked to take. This merry...

(A mythical horned demon, which inhabits the forests of Tatarstan)                                              I In vicinity of Kazan...

  Evening comes to the Tatar village; the magic bright moon is in the sky Under its light all seems silver: houses, roofs, fields nearby Very silent. Working people fell asleep because they’re tired From...