Those who did not believe

In the 15th of the 1001 Nights, Scheherazade tells Sultan Shahryar the history of sheik Shahabeddin:

One day the Sultan of Egypt gathered all the scholars from his rich and discussed the following topic with them. The Muslims say, that the angel Djabraïl (Gabriel) raised the prophet Muhammad from his bed lighted and showed him everything that was in the seven heavens, in paradise and is seen in hell. After that the prophet had another 90,000 conversations with Allah, and when he was brought back to his bed by the angel, he just had time to find a jar that had been left had fallen over, to be set up before all the water had flowed out...

“Who can believe such ridiculous stories!” the Sultan had said said. But the scholars replied to him: "For Allah's Mightiness is nothing impossible”... and now a battle arose, which the greatest caused discord in Egypt.

The news of this also reached Sheikh Shabeddin. He went immediately on his way to the Sultan, who received him with respect. She sit in a room with four windows, which at the request of the sheikh were closed. After they discussed various matters had, the learned sheikh pushed open the windows one by one, and the Sultan saw to his dismay that innumerable army came against his palace, when all Cairo was in flames; after that, a great flood threatened his palace. But this scenes were destroyed by the sheik, so did he again the beautiful landscape that the sultan passed through the fourth window, while he knew that the horizon a barren desert plain stretched out.

Then the sheikh ordered a large vat of water to be brought, and he requested the Sultan to sit down there and immerse his head for a while. The Sultan did this... and he found himself on the bank of a large, unknown water, between rocks and mountains. He lived seven years in this strange country, suffered immensely, married there and had seven children sons and seven daughters. He came, without knowing this, on a good day back at the place where he had entered the foreign country, there was a bath in the river, and when he put his head above water, he himself... in his palace, surrounded by his courtiers, and they and the sheik declared that he had just submerged his head and had immediately surfaced again...

Also in Sumatra, centuries ago, Allah had to punish a man who did not want to accept the new faith.

He and his wife were good people. They lived deep in the woods, on the upper course of one of the rivers which flow into the Strait of Malacca; in a world of its own, where only rumours permeated the existence of a larger world. They had children and had the good. But every now and then, when the wife noticed how unbelieving her husband was, they argued fiercely, and his disbelief was the woman's greatest any sorrow she knew.

Once, he had slaughtered a chicken for a festive meal and who began to pick, his wife returned to a quarrel, that they had had, because the man did not believe in the omnipotence of Allah. He stood up angrily and exclaimed: “Now I've had enough of this nonsense, I'm going to take a bath; now you pluck the chicken yourself!” and he threw the half-bald animal lay before her feet. Then he descended the bank, in resentment and annoyance. That constant whining! They had it so bad together good, but when that one thing came that seemed so insignificant to him, then everything wrong.

He went down into the river, but when he came up again, he was in a strange country with unknown people. He married there and had children, but he could not find happiness, though he wandered everywhere to seek it. So, after seven years, he came to a river, and took up a bath. But when he put his head above water again, he saw his own bathing place, and up on the high bank his own little house! He suddenly remembered what had happened seven years ago and he cringed with grief. He ran up the rampart... what would happen? to have become a good wife!

“That's quick!” she cried gaily, glad to see his remorseful yet such a happy face. How wonderful that he could immediately correct his mistake. had realized... the chicken wasn't completely plucked yet!

Now the man believed. And the children, left in the strange land, were the first Boenians.