A poor fisherman who never casts his net more than four times a day pulls a sealed copper bottle from the sea. Inside is a Jinni who spent four hundred years in the dark and has sworn to kill whoever frees him. This cinematic Omani-set drama is a full retelling of the classic Arabian Nights tale, and the complete story with its ending is in this single video.
It is a story about greed and gratitude, cleverness and mercy, and the quiet strength of an honest man. Settle in, watch to the end, and tell us in the comments whether you think the fisherman's lesson was cleverness, mercy, or both.
00:00 The Jinni's threat and a poor family's dawn
01:00 A jar of mud, broken glass and a copper bottle
03:00 Three hundred years and the angry fourth vow
05:00 King Yunan's illness and the arrival of Duban
06:30 Whispers in the torch-lit corridor
08:00 The parrot tells the truth and the staged storm
10:30 The last request and the book of secrets
13:00 Four colored fish and the Jinni's farewell
15:00 The final cast and the closing tale
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It is a story about greed and gratitude, cleverness and mercy, and the quiet strength of an honest man. Settle in, watch to the end, and tell us in the comments whether you think the fisherman's lesson was cleverness, mercy, or both.
00:00 The Jinni's threat and a poor family's dawn
01:00 A jar of mud, broken glass and a copper bottle
03:00 Three hundred years and the angry fourth vow
05:00 King Yunan's illness and the arrival of Duban
06:30 Whispers in the torch-lit corridor
08:00 The parrot tells the truth and the staged storm
10:30 The last request and the book of secrets
13:00 Four colored fish and the Jinni's farewell
15:00 The final cast and the closing tale
#TheFishermanAndTheJinni #ArabianNights #OmaniDrama #CompleteStory #FolkTale #JinniStory #CinematicDrama
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00:00Free! After four hundred years, the sky is mine again!
00:06God protect me! What have I let out of that bottle?
00:11Free! Four hundred years in the dark, and you have opened my prison.
00:17Little man, choose how you die.
00:21There was once a man so poor that the sea was his shop, and the fish his only wages.
00:28Each dawn, he went to it humbly.
00:31There is flour for today, not for tomorrow.
00:34Then I will bring tomorrow home today, God willing.
00:37Forecasts?
00:38Four, never five. Never five.
00:41Even if the fifth would be the lucky one?
00:46Then luck can come on another morning.
00:48Fish?
00:49Fish, little one. Go back to sleep.
00:52Come with us! There is room in the boat,
00:55and the fish run thick beyond the rocks.
00:58Thank you, friend. I fish from the shore.
01:04You are not what I prayed for.
01:07Back to the sea, old friend.
01:10One cast.
01:11In God's name, give me enough.
01:13This one is heavier.
01:15Perhaps luck has come early.
01:17A jar of mud.
01:18My children eat mud now?
01:20Two.
01:21Two casts gone and still nothing to carry home.
01:23Pretty. Not edible.
01:26Lord, please. Once more.
01:28I never ask for more than enough.
01:30A sign from the wind.
01:32Three. One more. Only one.
01:34Slowly now.
01:35This weight is different.
01:37A bottle.
01:38Copper.
01:39This is worth something to the smith.
01:41Someone wanted this shut very badly.
01:45Soldered tight.
01:46Give way, old lead.
01:48Empty.
01:49Not even a drop of water inside.
01:51What is this?
01:53Smoke?
01:53From an empty bottle?
01:56Free!
01:57After four hundred years,
01:59the sky is mine again!
02:02God protect me.
02:03What have I let out of that bottle?
02:06Little man,
02:07do you know what you have done?
02:10I think I have opened a bottle.
02:13You have opened the door of my prison
02:16four hundred years at the bottom of the sea.
02:20Then I am glad to have helped.
02:22Are you?
02:24Choose how you die.
02:26I... what?
02:27I will kill you.
02:29It is the only fair thing.
02:31I should be rewarded,
02:33not killed.
02:34I will tell you why.
02:36Sit.
02:37I was one of the rebels.
02:39I refused to submit to Solomon,
02:42son of David.
02:43He had me brought.
02:44He asked me to yield.
02:46I would not.
02:48So he shut me inside a copper bottle,
02:52sealed it with lead,
02:53and stamped it with his seal.
02:55Then they carried me to the sea.
02:58They dropped me into the sea like a stone.
03:01For the first hundred years,
03:03I swore,
03:04whoever frees me,
03:05I will make him rich forever.
03:07No one came.
03:08For the second hundred,
03:10I swore,
03:11whoever frees me,
03:12I will open every treasure of the earth to him.
03:16The fish thinned,
03:18and then there were none.
03:20For the third hundred,
03:21I swore,
03:22whoever frees me,
03:23I will grant him three wishes.
03:25No one came.
03:26Dark and silent,
03:28the years pressed in around me.
03:30And in the fourth hundred,
03:31I grew angry.
03:33And I swore,
03:34whoever frees me now,
03:36I will kill,
03:38and I will let him choose how.
03:40And you were the first.
03:43Great one,
03:44I am sorry for your suffering.
03:46But if you had kept your first promise,
03:48I would be rich.
03:50I changed my mind.
03:52For me?
03:53The vow is the vow.
03:55Choose.
03:56Is this the reward of kindness?
03:59Kindness is for not in a bottle.
04:01Then answer me one thing.
04:03Four hundred years,
04:04inside that little bottle?
04:05Yes!
04:07Forgive me.
04:08I mean no insult.
04:10But I do not believe it.
04:12What did you say?
04:14You are as tall as the sky.
04:16That bottle would not hold your thumb.
04:19Watch, mortal,
04:20and learn.
04:24So it can hold you after all.
04:26Fisherman!
04:27Open it!
04:27I was jesting!
04:29You were not.
04:30Now, great one,
04:31it is you who must choose.
04:32Choose, then.
04:33I will throw you back where I found you,
04:36and warn every fisherman
04:37never to cast near this spot.
04:39No!
04:40I beg you!
04:41You do not understand!
04:44Fisherman,
04:45wise one,
04:46let me out,
04:47and I will do you only good.
04:49You said that to Solomon too,
04:51I expect.
04:54I am ashamed!
04:56I will make you
04:57the richest man in the city.
04:58You swore it,
05:00then swore the opposite.
05:01A promise made in a bottle
05:03is not a promise.
05:04Do not insult me!
05:06Then I will tell you a story.
05:08You have time.
05:10It is the story of a king
05:12who refused to spare
05:13the man who saved him.
05:14Long ago,
05:16in the land of Persia,
05:17there was a king named Yunnan.
05:20He was strong,
05:21wise, and just,
05:23but he had one sorrow,
05:25leprosy.
05:25Every physician in the kingdom
05:27had tried.
05:28Every remedy had failed.
05:31The king grew tired of hoping,
05:33and the court grew quiet.
05:36Then,
05:36into the city,
05:37came a stranger named Duban,
05:39a sage.
05:40He knew Greek,
05:41Persian,
05:42Arabic,
05:42Syriac.
05:43He knew the stars
05:44and the properties
05:45of every herb.
05:46They tell me you can cure me.
05:48If God wills it,
05:50and if the king will trust me.
05:52I have trusted 50 men.
05:54Why should the 51st be different?
05:57Duban worked by lamplight.
05:59He ground his herbs,
06:02and hid the cure
06:03in the hollow handle
06:05of a polo mallet.
06:07Ride, Majesty.
06:08Strike the ball,
06:09ride hard,
06:10until your hand is warm
06:11and your body sweats.
06:13The medicine lies in the handle.
06:15That is all?
06:16That is all.
06:17He rode until the sweat
06:19ran down his face,
06:20and the old heaviness
06:22fell away from him.
06:23My hand is warm.
06:25I feel it, Duban.
06:26I feel alive again.
06:28The king bathed and slept.
06:31At dawn he woke,
06:32raised his hands
06:33before his face,
06:34and found the skin
06:35clear and smooth,
06:36healed.
06:37God be praised.
06:38I owe you my life.
06:40Ask anything.
06:42I ask nothing, Majesty.
06:44Then I give.
06:45Robes,
06:46a house in the palace,
06:47a place at my table.
06:50Now the king had a vizier,
06:52a man who had served him
06:53for years.
06:55And this vizier
06:56watched the new favorite
06:57with a very different eye.
07:00Majesty,
07:01may I speak plainly?
07:02This Duban.
07:03You trust him very much.
07:04He has earned it.
07:05He cured you
07:06with a polo mallet.
07:07A mallet.
07:09Think about that.
07:11If he heals through a handle,
07:13he can kill through one.
07:14He had every chance
07:15to harm me before.
07:17A spy does not strike
07:19on the first day.
07:20For the king of Rum,
07:22perhaps.
07:24He would want you dead.
07:26The king of Rum.
07:28I had not thought of that.
07:32A mallet.
07:33Handle.
07:34Could it be?
07:35And so,
07:36the first poison
07:37entered the king.
07:38Not in a cup,
07:40but in a whisper.
07:42Duban,
07:43tell me about yourself.
07:44I am a physician, majesty.
07:46A traveler.
07:47A reader of old books.
07:49You have no home?
07:50I have the road.
07:51Guards!
07:52Do not hesitate, majesty.
07:54A king who has a who bleeds.
07:56Is there any reason
07:57for him to wish me harm?
07:59Which is exactly
08:00what a spy desires.
08:03There was once a husband.
08:05A merchant
08:06who had a wife he loved
08:08and a parrot he loved
08:10more than most men
08:11love their friends.
08:13I will be gone a month.
08:15Take care of the house
08:16and the bird.
08:17Watch the house.
08:18Tell me everything
08:20when I return.
08:20Everything!
08:21Everything.
08:24Is your husband
08:25truly gone?
08:27He is.
08:28Come in and speak softly.
08:30Even the bird is listening.
08:32It is only a bird.
08:33Well, what have I missed?
08:36Every night,
08:37a man came.
08:39Your wife welcomed him.
08:41They sat together
08:42long after the lamps
08:43were out.
08:45Quietly now.
08:46Begin at my sign.
08:48That night,
08:49the wife arranged
08:50thunder,
08:51lightning,
08:51and rain
08:52in a roof
08:53and a mirror
08:53and a bowl of water.
08:56thunder,
08:57lightning,
08:58rain,
08:59so much rain.
09:01Is the world ending?
09:02And the parrot
09:03believed the storm
09:05was real.
09:06Well, bird,
09:07is it true
09:07what you told me?
09:08There was thunder
09:09last night.
09:10And lightning.
09:11There was no rain
09:11last night.
09:12The sky was clear.
09:13You have lied.
09:15No, I saw...
09:17Master, forgive me.
09:19The man who came
09:20at night
09:20has been seen.
09:22And so he killed
09:24the one creature
09:24who had told him
09:25the truth.
09:27So,
09:29perhaps I should
09:30not be hasty.
09:32Majesty,
09:32I have a story too.
09:33There was once a prince,
09:35the son of a great king,
09:36who loved to hunt.
09:38The king gave his son
09:40a trusted minister
09:41to guard him.
09:42But the prince was young
09:44and wanted to be alone.
09:48Lady,
09:49why do you weep?
09:51I am the daughter
09:51of a king
09:52in the far lands.
09:53I fell from my caravan
09:55and they left me behind.
09:58Ride with me.
09:59I will take you home,
10:01whatever the distance.
10:02You are kind,
10:03my lord.
10:05Few would stop
10:06for a stranger
10:06weeping at the roadside.
10:08Wait.
10:09I must step away
10:10for a moment.
10:11Let me down here.
10:13Of course, my lady.
10:14I will wait here.
10:17What is that sound?
10:18Gnawing?
10:19My children,
10:20I have brought dinner.
10:21A young prince,
10:23fat and tender.
10:24Wait quietly.
10:26He will come to us soon.
10:27God protect me.
10:28She is no woman at all.
10:29Did something startle you?
10:32I seek God's protection
10:34from you
10:34and from every evil like you.
10:40Majesty,
10:41mercy for the wicked
10:42is cruelty to the good.
10:44If you trust this man,
10:46your trust will find teeth.
10:49Duban,
10:50majesty,
10:51I cured you
10:52with my own hands.
10:54Is this my reward?
10:56Your reward is the sword.
10:58God will repay you.
10:59Guards!
11:01God,
11:02I healed a king.
11:04Your will be done.
11:05And sage Duban,
11:07who had healed a king,
11:09waited to be killed by him.
11:12Majesty,
11:13I beg one thing.
11:15Let me fetch a book
11:16from my house.
11:17I will give it to you
11:19as a gift.
11:20A book?
11:22Cut off my head
11:23and set it upon the mat.
11:25Then open the sixth page
11:27and the head
11:28will answer your questions.
11:30Bring it.
11:32Take this book,
11:33majesty,
11:34and remember,
11:35open it only after.
11:37It will be done
11:38as you ask.
11:39I forgive you all.
11:41Peace be upon you.
11:43The pages are stuck.
11:44I must wet my finger.
11:47Each page was blank
11:48and each was coated
11:49with poison.
11:50There is nothing here.
11:52Only blank paper.
11:54Did you think
11:55I would harm you,
11:56majesty?
11:57You have harmed yourself.
11:59The poison was in the pages.
12:01You have licked it up
12:02with your own fingers.
12:04My chest.
12:05I cannot breathe.
12:07Duban, forgive me.
12:08The poison took hold
12:10and the king fell upon the stones.
12:12The courtyard fell silent.
12:14And so King Yunnan died,
12:16all because he would not
12:18honor the man who saved him.
12:20Jabir stood alone
12:21beneath the arches
12:22with no one to whisper to.
12:26And so you see,
12:27if King Yunnan had spared Duban,
12:30God would have spared him.
12:31But he did not.
12:32And you, great Jinni,
12:34would not spare me.
12:35Fisherman,
12:37open it
12:38so that you may kill me?
12:40No, no, I swear.
12:41Open it
12:42and I will do you no harm.
12:43Where have I heard that before?
12:47I swear on the greatest name of God.
12:50Let me out.
12:52The greatest name.
12:53No oath binds him more.
12:57God is my witness.
12:58I open this in trust.
13:00Fisherman,
13:01I have wronged you.
13:02You have.
13:03Four hundred years
13:04taught me to hate
13:05even the hand that saved me.
13:07I will not go back
13:08in that thing again.
13:10Not for any man.
13:12Walk with me.
13:14Where?
13:15To the thing I promised.
13:17The ridge is steep
13:18and the wind is cold.
13:20Keep close to my hand.
13:22I will not let you fall.
13:24A Jinni who catches fishermen.
13:26I have seen everything.
13:28I never knew this lake
13:29shining in four colors.
13:31Cast your net here.
13:32Here?
13:33Here, here.
13:34And bring your catch to the Sultan.
13:37He will pay you well.
13:38And my rule?
13:40Four casts a day.
13:42Then you will be a careful rich man.
13:44Cast once.
13:45See what comes.
13:46In God's name.
13:48Once.
13:49Four fish.
13:51One white,
13:51one red,
13:52one blue,
13:53one yellow.
13:54They gleam like polished stones.
13:56These are not ordinary fish.
13:58No,
13:58they are not.
13:59Fisherman,
14:00I tried to repay kindness with death.
14:03You repaid it with mercy.
14:04I am sorry.
14:07Go,
14:08and be better than the bottle.
14:10Zainab!
14:12Where have you been?
14:13I feared you were dead.
14:15You did not come home last night.
14:17I met a man.
14:18A very large man.
14:19It is a long story.
14:21What did you catch?
14:23Papa,
14:23they are beautiful.
14:25Fish.
14:26Four of them,
14:27each a different color.
14:28Come,
14:29we are going to the Sultan.
14:31I have a gift for the Sultan.
14:33Four fish,
14:34such as no one has seen.
14:37By God,
14:38wait here.
14:42Such colors I have never seen.
14:45Where did you find these?
14:47In a lake between two mountains,
14:49majesty.
14:50Not a day's walk from the sea.
14:52I have lived here all my life, majesty.
14:54There is no such lake.
14:55Then it was brought to me by a power I cannot name.
14:59Then it is a good power.
15:02Pay the man,
15:03and pay him generously.
15:04How much, majesty?
15:06Four hundred dinars.
15:07A man who brings wonders
15:09should never leave a palace poor.
15:10Four hundred?
15:11All of it gold.
15:13And a robe of honor,
15:14so your wife is not ashamed
15:16to walk beside you.
15:18Majesty,
15:18you are generous beyond my dreams.
15:21May God bless the Sultan.
15:24Four hundred?
15:25Tell me I am not dreaming.
15:27You are not dreaming.
15:28Four hundred.
15:29And no donkey.
15:30No donkey.
15:31Come,
15:32let us buy the children some bread.
15:34Six loaves?
15:35The sea was kind to you.
15:36Kind indeed.
15:38Add a seventh
15:38for the man by the wall.
15:40And so the poor man became comfortable
15:43and never forgot
15:44how some say a jinni still sleeps
15:46beneath that mountain,
15:48grateful and waiting.
15:49Some say the lesson was cleverness,
15:52others say it was mercy.
15:53Perhaps both are true.
15:56Papa,
15:57will you fish tomorrow?
15:58Of course,
15:59forecasts.
16:00You do not need to now.
16:02The sea gave me what I need.
16:04I will not ask for more.
16:08And that,
16:09dear listener,
16:10is the tale
16:11of the fisherman
16:12and the jinni.
16:13The tale of the fisherman