Path to Death: "Sleep Isn't Permissible"

Underlying all chaos in Arabian Nights and Days kingdom, Sindbad proposed seven reasons people fall into the abyss of evil and temptation. Though, one reason stands out as more morally than others: "Sleep is not permissible [when] wakefulness is necessary, and while there is life, there is no reason to despair."

This reason is a central justice to all the crimes and benevolences that result in rewards or divine punishment from God. While those who ignorantly fall asleep from surrounding crimes and unjust, ones who are awake of situations acknowledge the reality of standings and significance of the struggle to untangle injustice. The ignorances stay still in the mud of crime and temptation.

On the parallel side, those who criticizes their lives should not have given complaints since they still have a life cherishing for. There is no reason for lamenting and despairing over small incidents in life and ignore a bigger picture of life's value.

Throughout Arabian Nights and Days, there are many incidents that happened, both troubling and trivial. Most noteworthy of all are spells cast on citizens and gradually turn them into malicious and corrupted beings. Just at the beginning, the victims of these spells are normal merchant worthy of the task to destroy corrupted politician figures in the region. However, weaving the story into more complexities, evil genie turn good or greedy people into their game of pleasure, destroying the world by affecting humans with corruption. They use innocent people to become henchmen of the spread of evil. They transform into temptress, black marketer, sabotager. They trick people into an unescapable web and the discard them to spider food. No one, in the end, can understand why some people escape untangled and others crimelessly persecuted.

The secret to salvation, or unpersecuted by God, however, lies in the wakefulness of a person. Absurd to say, but most people claim they are already 'awake' all the time, no doubt that God will spare them. However, wakefulness truly means comprehending the situation they are in, dangers, risks, advantages, trends. Nur al-Din the poor perfume seller gets trapped into the game of Sakhrabout and Zarmabaha, 'marries' a girl whom he never met. However, despite the crime of insolence he committed on the sultana's sister, he willingly accepts his guilt, and furthermore faces the reality to his mother and the sultan, confessing his crime. He did not run away from from more responsibilities, immediately finds Dunyazad to marry her.

At the same moment, in the palace, Dunyazad is sick worried how she can take responsibility of her future. Against her will, the sultan has agreed to wed her into the hands of a monkey-billionaire; she loathes the idea. On the side, she always knew she was with child with the man she never met, but she can never refuse the political marriage that can benefit the kingdom after a war. Nonetheless, Dunyazad rebelled against the contract and admits that she has no position to be engaged to the sultan's arrangement.

Both Nur al-Din and Dunyazad faced their guilts without ignoring the problem to make it worse. Despite the possibility, they could have chosen to keep secret and hide any trace of the problem. However, they abandon neglect and faced responsibility of a new reality, and, nonetheless, being 'wakeful' of the situation. The wakefulness gives them a chance to live and redeem to the past crimes, which would have killed them the same as killing the other unspared people.

Even in life how strong desperation is, there is still a light of hope ready to be noticed. Most people submerge in darkness and fear for all of their lives, fixated on the darkness, negativity and not the bright side. However, they don't value the persons and possession worthy to prove that their lives are scarce. Further in desperation, some people indulge themselves in the crime and evil after initial exposure to temptation. Although seems harmless and insignificant, temptations and coaxing words quickly spins into addiction and contagious crimes; thrust out of reach and beyond humane sight. Often too late, the addicted will regret the innocent and peaceful life owned before but can't turn an eye away from addiction because of already developed obsession.

Unlucky for the innocent young lad Fadil Sanaan, the endemic genie bewitchingly absorb him into a rabbit hole of crime and the lawless. Just initially, he began to steal money from a butcher, beat customers, ransack stores, break in houses. Then mold into worse and worse theft, manslaughter of innocent civilian, unguilty prisoner. One day, he broke into a jail cell to kill a criminal; assuming that it was justice until he found to kill the twin of his. Just as realization hit, he soon regret the crime and unjust created, and the consequence of going to jail right after. At that very moment, he wishes to come back to the virtuous person, unharmed by the invisibility cap that threw him into mess. Twisted for him, the crime build-up exceed far beyond limit of redemption. He was persecuted right after capture.

Likely during the fall, he could admit to the series crime but never had courage for. Stuck under the mud of fear and terror, he keeps secrets to himself and repeatedly bottles in crimes until secrets spill out. Before the downslope rabbit hole begins, he could neglect the fatal offer for owning the invisibility cap; yet temptation took the attractive side rather than 'wakefulness'. Sucks to be sleepy, huh?

Sindbad ends his lesson of wakefulness and sleepy, despair or enjoy by telling a valuable-as-gem story of his own. Upon his travel, he could not restrain from sleep and behind his back, his shipmates abandoned him on a desert island, returning mainland on a large ship. Sleeping makes one unaware of his situation, and the enemy using him. Even if one naps away from a chance, that person should not despair over tiny unworthy parts of life and neglect the core truth.

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