Abu Kasim's Slippers

While reading this story, I was a little confused. I mean, I loved it. Don't get me wrong. But I thought the slippers were the old ones. For some reason I had in my mind that after his old slippers were taken (and then returned to him) they were cursed. I did not know it was a new pair of slippers. I thought the moral of the story was to be loyal to the things you love or karma will come back and bite you in the toosh. I guess the real moral of the story is not to be too cheap. Those are completely opposite morals. OOPS!