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Hidden treasure
Neda Fatima
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Submitted to Contest #2 in response to the prompt: 'Write a story about your character finding a mysterious message hidden in an old book.'

Aliza a college girl of 19 year age was a young , beautiful and studious girl. She was studying B.A. from BHU of varanasi city. Her mother Shabina was a housewife and her father rais ahmad was an advocate . She was a bright student and has always excelled in her studies. and was having many hobbies alongside her usual studies like music, novels, films, etc. But these days she has developed a new hobby which has now converted into her passion and that was of learning a new language every month as much as she could . Till now she has learnt many languages like English which she was good at but she perfected it with this app, then she learnt german language and made
a whole lot of notes on it and now currently this month of August 2024 she was learning Arabic through the Duolingo app on her mobile . Then one day her mother suggested her to take a look into the home library section and find an Arabic book which will help her more in learning this language and she found the suggestion helpful . So, she went into the book corner of the house. There all kinds of new and old books were kept and she started searching for an Arabic book. After about an hour of hard work, she actually found an old thick brown coloured cover Arabic book on which some Arabic title was written which she could make out as ‘dilchasp kisse’ which means interesting stories. So, she opened this book but she was not able to understand it properly what was written on it, so she just started turning the pages and then she found a hand written note inside it in which some message was written in Arabic which she could not properly read or understand . ‘may be it could be something useful or important’ a thought came in her mind and she took the book with her with the note clutched in her hands and went to her room. As she came there she started searching for Arabic to English translation website and then she typed the message on the site because she can read Arabic somewhat improperly but whatever she could make out she typed on it and then the message got translated into English which came as:
‘hello reader, well you are whoever whatever …doesn't matter ….but I have for you a treasure ….find out if you could …but first solve this riddle…. for the one who solve it will be benefited…. but the one who couldn't will lose nothing ….so be happy because here comes the riddle…. don't panic because its just words….’ and below it was written the riddle which goes like this:
‘ I am the treasure can give you money,
but I am hidden in this house properly ,
I am something useful and costly too,
I also sparkle like shining brightly,
I am boxed inside a small container ,
my address is p12 + 4 l + 6w on it,
find me soon or else I'll be a waste,
which I don't want so don't be late .’
And Alizah noted down the address in her notebook p12 + 4 l+ 6w …..’what could it be ? where could it be? what I am supposed to do ?’ she pressed her head from both hands and closed her eyes and then a thought struck in her mind ‘address is house where we humans live , address of a thing inside the book would be the address of the book inside it. She read the message again, p 12 means page no. 12 , 4 l means fourth line of it and 6 w means first 6 words of it . Got it’ she thought and Alizah jumped with joy and excitement and she quickly opened the page number 12 , 4 rth line from above and first six words of it , there was written ‘ andar hai purani Quran box me’ means the treasure is inside the old metal cover of the oldest Quran of the house. Alizah ran to mother’s bedroom where all the qurans were kept quickly searched for the oldest red Quran of the family and the heavy metal back case of it , she found that particular Quran kept at the corner and she took out the Quran from it and kept it outside on the bed and then she started searching all over inside and then she found a very thin empty metal section near the corner , she took a pen and started searching in it , there was something inside it she took out that thing with the help of the pen and then a very thin red potali came out, she opened it and there was diamonds inside it worth crores of rupees. ‘ I can't believe this ‘ she murmured and this treasure came as a solution to all her problems. She has always dreamt of studying abroad and now this dream of her's can actually come true with this treasure she has found today . She thanked God for this because from that day her life changed forever and she started living the life of her dreams.

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Nice One, I really liked riddle Part such a crisp Story! If you have time try Reading mine too (Achoo...Achoo..Achoowed a great Life)

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