Eagle Story is about a wounded Eaglet who was rescued by a kind farmer:

Eagle Story is about a wounded Eaglet who was rescued by a kind
farmer. Farmer found Eaglet in oneof his fields, and so took him home,
tended to his wounds, and then placed him outside in the barnyard to
recover.
Strangely enough, Eaglet soon adapted to the habits of all the
barnyard chickens. Eaglet learned to walk and cluck like chickens.
Eaglet learned to drink from a trough and peck the dirt for food, and
for many years Eaglet peacefully resigned himselfto this new life on
the farmand grow up to become beautiful Eagle.
But then one day, one of the farmer's friends spotted the Eagle and
asked, "Why in the world isthat Eagle acting like a Chicken?" The
farmer told him what had happened, yet the friend could hardly accept
the situation.
"It's just not right," said thefriend. "The Almighty Creator made that
Eagle to soar in the sky, not scavenge in the barnyard!" So he picked
up the unsuspecting Eagle, climbed onto a nearby fence post, and
tossed him into the air. But the confused Eagle just fell back to
earth and scurried off in search of his feathered friends.
Undaunted, the friend thengrabbed the Eagle and climbed to the top of
the barn. As he heaved him off the roof, the Eagle made a few
halfhearted squawks and flaps before falling intoa bale of hay. After
shakinghis head a few times, the Eagle then made himself comfortable
and began mindlessly pecking at pieces of straw.
The friend went home that night dejected, and could barely sleep as he
remembered the sight of those powerful talons caked with barnyard mud.
He couldn't bear the thought, so the very next day, he headed back to
the farm for another try. This time he carried the Eagle tothe top of
a nearby mountain where the sky unfolded in a limitless horizon.
He looked into the Eagle's eyes and cried out, "Don't you understand?
You weren't made to live like a Chicken! Why would you want to stay
down here when you were born for the sky?" As the man held the
confused Eagle aloft, hemade sure the Eagle was facing into the
brilliant light of the setting sun. Then he powerfully heavedthe bird
into the sky, and this time the Eagle opened his wings, looked at the
sun, caught the updraft rising from the valley, and disappeared into
the clouds of sky.
Moral ♥ :Do you know that we, too, were born for some high purpose in
this life? The Almighty Creator has called us to live in the heights,
yet too many of ushave huddled together in the barnyard, not
struggling to search for ourown Islamic identity and the purpose of
Islamic life? —

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