As for your brothers, I am full of fury against them, and certainly, I must kill them!
Even I am full of fury towards the two brothers as I read this story! 😅 I knew there was something very wrong with the two brothers because they squandered their money and relied on the sheikh to help them. He shares the profit of his business with them as a good brother should and in return, they throw him and his wife into the sea?! Very wrong and cruel of them. See what jealousy can do? They rightly deserve the punishment of being turned into a dog. The genie was kind enough to put a duration of 10 years on the punishment. Justice was served in the end.
The third sheikh's story is more shocking! His wife cheats on him, turns him into a dog and chased him out of his own house! Wow. She must be having a good time with the black slave or she's just ungrateful and never loved the sheikh. I notice the common trend in the Arabian stories when they refer to infidelity, there's usually a black slave involved. Do you know the reason for this? Couldn't the wife have been sleeping maybe with a Sultan or a male friend?
No doubt Scheherazade is well-versed and skilful in storytelling. I'm looking forward to how the third sheikh's story ends. Thank you. 😊😊
I think that at this time they considered black people as inferior beings, and that made the infidelity even worse.