At the beginning of the second century was Christian, dying in a marginal neighborhood of Baghdad Persia, a widow miserably poor, exhausted by the advanced age and deprivation, knew that death would soon come to claim her, so calling her youngest son gave him a certain book; that for years had kept hidden.
My son told the boy, this book was given to me in payment by a powerful sorcerer whom I gave him for a night long ago. Its pages contain detailed instructions to locate an immense treasure hidden in a distant country. Once you have that book in your hands, there is only one condition that you have to strictly observe: It must be read by you, page by page, and without skipping any. If you go ahead to get faster at the end, this book will begin to vanish immediately and you will never be able to find the treasure; Remember this, page by page, and you will be a rich and powerful being when you reach the last one.
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After his mother died and after the obligatory mourning, Omar, who was the name of the young man, began to read the book as his mother had indicated; but several pages later the text no longer continued in Persian, but in another Arabic language. Immediately the young man thought of a translator, but if he found one, he would also know how to get to the treasure.
Hence, he insisted on studying that Arabic language and after several months of learning, he continued to read its pages one by one. But it happened that later pages that text continued in another language, learning it, continued reading its pages one by one, but it happened that pages later of that text continued in another language that was Chinese; and so every so many pages they varied to another language, forcing the persistent Omar to dedicate himself with discipline and determination to dominate them all.
Being a polyglot expert, I would begin to earn good money as a translator and interpreter of all kinds of foreign texts, approaching the final part of the book and how in its content there were detailed instructions for how to manage the treasure once it was in your possession, he insisted on studying economics and additionally mining, including everything related to the composition and value of metals, such as gold, silver, and valuable minerals; becoming also a skilled expert in different types of precious stones.
In the same way he learned engineering and urbanism, growing to such an extent his reputation as a cultured man and great wisdom, which even reached the ears of the supreme Persian leader, who entrusted him with several projects, Omar carried them out with such efficient professionalism that the so-called king of kings, he quoted him to his palace. When he left there after hours of conversation, he had already been appointed general administrator of the empire, his management was so honest and successful in such a high office that in a short time he was the humble son of a marginal and very poor widow; he became as admired by the citizenship as the emperor himself.
Eventually and just before her marriage with none other than the most beautiful daughter of the Shah of Persia, Omar finally reached the last page of the treasure book. there was written only this sentence: "The greatest riches that exist are knowledge and knowledge."