Welcome to the enchanting world of Akbar Birbal stories! These timeless tales of wit, wisdom, and humor have captivated audiences for centuries. Akbar, the wise Mughal emperor, and Birbal, his clever advisor, make an unbeatable team. Their adventures are filled with valuable lessons, teaching us about friendship, intelligence, and kindness.
Akbar Birbal stories are more than just entertaining anecdotes; they’re a treasure trove of moral lessons for kids and adults alike. Birbal’s clever solutions and Akbar’s open-mindedness inspire us to think creatively and approach problems with a positive attitude.
In this blog, we’ll delve into the fascinating world of Akbar Birbal stories, exploring their wit, wisdom, and humor. Join us as we discover the secrets of their enduring friendship and learn valuable lessons from their exciting adventures. Get ready to laugh, learn, and be inspired by the incredible Akbar Birbal stories!
The Crows in The Kingdom
On one fine sunny day, Akbar and Birbal were taking a leisurely walk in the palace gardens. Suddenly, Akbar thought of testing Birbal’s wits by asking him a tricky question.
Emperor asked Birbal, “How many crows are there in our kingdom?” Birbal could sense the amusement in the king’s voice, and within a few minutes Birbal replied, “My king, there are eighty thousand nine hundred and seventy-one crows in our kingdom”.
Surprised and amazed, Akbar further tested Birbal, “What if we have more crows?” Birbal replied, “Oh, then the crows from the other kingdoms must be visiting us’’. “ What if there are lesser crows?” asked Akbar.
“Well, then some of our crows must be visiting other kingdoms”, replied Birbal with a grin on his face. Akbar smiled at Birbal’s great sense of humour and wit.
Moral : There is always a solution if one thinks with ease.
Iam your servant
Once, Akbar and Birbal happened to pass through some cabbage fields while riding on their horses. Looking at the cabbages, Akbar said to Birbal, “What a delicious vegetable the cabbage is! I like it very much.” Birbal immediately seconded Akbar’s opinion and said, “Huzoor, You have a royal taste in vegetables as well. The cabbage is the king of the vegetables. It ideally befits your status.”
Some days later, they rode past the same cabbage fields again. This time Akbar frowned at the very sight of the cabbages and said, “This cabbage is such a tasteless vegetable! I wonder how people swallow it down their throats.” Birbal replied, “I agree with you Huzoor, It is indeed difficult to even look at such a tasteless vegetable.”
Just then, Akbar remembered that the last time they had been there, Birbal was all praise for the vegetable and now he had totally changed his opinion. He asked Birbal, “Birbal, I don’t understand. Last time when we came here, you said that the cabbage was a royal vegetable, and today you are saying that it is even difficult to look at such a tasteless vegetable. What do you mean by that?”
Birbal bowed his head and said, “Huzoor, it means that I am your servant, and not of the cabbage.”
Birbal’s Sweet Reply
This is one of the most famous stories of Emperor Akbar and his witty courtier, Birbal. Akbar had a strange hobby of asking many interesting questions from his courtiers to amuse himself.
One day, Akbar entered the royal court, settled in his royal chair, and asked his courtiers, “What punishment should be given to a person who pulls my moustache?” The prime minister said, “He should be beheaded!”
The treasurer said, “He should be flogged!”
The chief of the army said, “He should be hanged!” Everybody in the court suggested many extreme punishments for the culprit. “What do you think, Birbal?” the Emperor asked Birbal. Birbal kept quiet for a moment, and then said, “Huzoor, he should be given sweets!”
“What, Birbal? Have you gone crazy? Do you know what are you saying?”
Birbal replied politely, “I am not crazy, Jahanpanah! And I know what I am saying!”
“Then how can you suggest that I should reward the person who pulls my moustache?” the Emperor asked in anger.Birbal again replied politely, “Because, Huzoor, the only person who can dare to do this is your grandson.”
The Emperor was very pleased with Birbal’s answer and gave his ring to him as a reward.
A Castle in the Air
Akbar is a very generous King. He used to dream a lot and try to implement it. Once, he said to his courtiers, “Most Kings establish magnificent structures so that the world remembers them after they are gone. I want to make a unique structure, like a castle in the air.”
“Sir, you are such a great King. You have many intelligent people like Birbal in your court. You can do anything you can think of,” said the courtiers flattering him, at the same time playing a trick on Birbal.
“What do you say, Birbal?” asked Akbar demanding a suitable reply. “Your Majesty, building a castle in the air is slightly difficult but not an impossible task,” said Birbal. “Can you do that?” asked Akbar in excitement.
“Of course, Your Majesty,” said Birbal, accepting the challenge. “But the arrangements should be from your side. Also I need a three months’ break to find the suitable architects.”
“I accept all your conditions,” said the king, “you just go ahead with the plan of the castle in the air.”
Birbal left for another country. There he acquainted himself with a bird-seller. The he ordered him to get around two hundred intelligent parrots. After a few days, the bird-seller procured two hundred parrots and sold them to Birbal.
Within three months, Birbal trained the parrots to shout, “Get me bricks, get the cement, come on, hurry up.”
After that Birbal went back to Akbar’s court, he said, “Your Majesty, the architects have been arranged. You simply make the preparation for the construction.” Saying this, he asked the king to come out of the palace to see the site. As soon as the king came outside, Birbal whispered something in the ears of a servant.
Hearing this, the servant opened the door of the cage from which the parrots fled and sat on the branches of the nearby trees. Then, they started shouting, “Get the bricks, get the cement, come on, and hurry up.”
Birbal said, “Did you hear that, Majesty. The architects are demanding material. Ask your servants to give them the required things.” The parrots continued to shout.
Akbar laughed and said, “Birbal, I accept my defeat. Ask your architects to go. How can I give them material in the air?”
Birbal said, “Don’t worry Majesty. After shouting for a few more moments, they will fly away.”
Everything happened the way Birbal has predicted. The parrots flew after sometime. From that day onwards, Akbar forgot to have such silly aspirations.
Who’s Mango Tree is It?
Once, two brothers, Ram and Sham, were fighting over the ownership of a Mango Tree.
Ram said the Mango tree was his; while Sham said he owned it. Unable to find a way out, they decided to ask Birbal for help. Birbal analysed the situation and told the brothers to remove all the mangoes, share them between the two brothers, then cut the tree in two equal halves.
Upon hearing Birbal, Ram noded, while Sham pled not to cut the tree for he had nurtured it for three whole years. Birbal found who the real owner of the tree was. He said, “The tree belongs to Sham because the very thought of cutting it down troubled him. Someone who has cared for it for three years won’t cut it down immediately.”
Moral : True ownership comes with responsibilities.
Just One Question
Once a scholar visited Akbar’s court with the thought of challenging Birbal’s intelligence.
The scholar told the king that he is the smartest and even Birbal would not be able to answer his questions. Akbar called Birbal to the court and told him what the scholar claimed. Birbal accepted the challenge that the scholar had posed for him.
The scholar asked Birbal, “Do you want to answer a hundred easy questions or one difficult question?” Birbal said that he wanted to answer the difficult one.
The scholar said, “Tell me Birbal, what came first, the chicken or the egg?” Birbal thought for a while and said, “Chicken came first”.
The scholar mocked Birbal and said, “How can you be sure?” Birbal immediately replied, “I had only promised to answer one question, and therefore, I will not reply”. The scholar felt ashamed of his claim and left with a heavy heart.
Moral : Presence of mind helps solve even the trickiest of problems.
The Most Beautiful Child
One day, Emperor Akbar saw a woman hugging and kissing a very dark, ugly and unattractive child. Though the child was obnoxious to look at, the woman was calling him the most attractive child in the world. This surprised the Emperor and he said to Birbal, “Birbal, I wonder how a woman could shower her love on such an unattractive child.” Birbal replied politely, “Huzoor, he must have been the woman’s own child. For every mother, her own child is the most beautiful child in the world.”
Birbal could easily make out from the Emperor’s face that he was not convinced with his reply. The next day, when the royal court met, Birbal ordered a guard to find and bring the most beautiful child in the world in the court the next morning.
The next day, the guard brought one unattractive and ugly child with projecting teeth and unkempt hair and presented him before the court. “This is the most beautiful child in the world, Your Majesty,” said the guard.
The Emperor asked, “How do you know that he is the most beautiful child in the world?”
“Your Majesty, I went home and shared my problem with my wife. According to her, our child is the most beautiful child in the world and hence, I brought him to the court,” the guard replied meekly.
Why Camel Neck is Crooked
As you all know, Emperor Akbar was very impressed with Birbal’s wisdom and greatly enjoyed his quick wit. One fine morning when Akbar was especially pleased with Birbal, as a gesture of appreciation, he promised to reward him with many valuable and beautiful gifts.
However, many days passed, and still there was no sign of even one gift. Birbal was quite disappointed with the king. Then one day, when Akbar was strolling down the banks of River Yamuna with his ever faithful Birbal at his side, he happened to notice a camel passing by. He asked Birbal why the neck of the camel was crooked. Birbal thought for a second and promptly replied that it might be because the camel may have forgotten to honour a promise. The holy books mention that those who break their word get punished with a crooked neck; perhaps that was the reason for the camels crooked neck.
Akbar soon realised his folly of making a promise to Birbal for gifts and not honouring it. He was ashamed of himself. As soon as they returned to the palace he immediately gave Birbal his justly deserved reward. As you can see, Birbal always managed to get what he wanted without directly asking for it.
Birbal’s Khichadi
Once on a cold winter day, Akbar and Birbal were walking by a lake.
Akbar stopped and put his finger into the freezing water and immediately took it out saying, “I don’t think anyone can sustain a night in this cold water”. Birbal took that as a challenge and said that he would find someone who can do it. Akbar promised a sum of 1000 gold coins to whoever could spend a night standing in the cold water of the lake.
Soon, Birbal found a poor man who agreed to undertake the challenge for the 1000 gold coins. Guarded by two royal guards, the poor man spent the entire night standing in the freezing water.
In the morning, the poor man was taken to court for the reward. On being asked by the king how he could stand in freezing water, the man replied, “My lord, I kept looking at a lamp that was burning at a distance, and spent my entire night looking at it”. On learning this, the emperor said, “This man is not worthy of the reward as he could manage to stand in the lake because he was getting warmth from the lamp”. The poor man felt doomed and heart-broken.
He reached out to Birbal for help. Birbal didn’t go to the court the next day. Akbar visited Birbal to find the reason. To his amusement, the King found Birbal sitting beside the fire with a pot hanging almost 6 feet above it. On being enquired, Birbal said, “I am cooking khichadi, my lord”. Akbar started laughing and said that was impossible. Birbal said, “It is possible my King.
If a poor man can stay warm by simply looking at the lamp burning at a distance, I can cook this khichadi the same way.” Akbar understood Birbal’s point and rewarded the poor man for completing the challenge.
Moral:Hope can inspire people to work hard.
The Foolish Thief
Once upon a time, a rich merchant was robbed in King Akbar’s kingdom.
The grief-stricken merchant went to the court and asked for help. Akbar asked Birbal to help the merchant find the robber.
The merchant told Birbal that he was suspicious of one of his servants. On getting the hint from the merchant, Birbal summoned all the servants and told them to stand in a straight line. When asked about the robbery, everyone denied doing it, as expected. Birbal then handed over one stick of the same length, to each one of them.
While dispersing, Birbal said, “By tomorrow, the robber’s stick will increase by two inches”.
The next day when Birbal summoned everyone and inspected their sticks, one servant’s stick was shorter by two inches.
On being asked by the merchant about the mystery of finding the real thief, Birbal said, “It was simple: the thief had cut his stick by two inches, fearing that it would increase in size”.
Moral:Truth always prevails.
TOBACCO HABIT
Birbal used to eat tobacco, but Akbar the king did not eat. Although Birbal knew that tobacco food was a bad habit, he used to get rid of it. Nonetheless, Emperor Akbar also did not like Birbal’s habit.
They thought of pulling Birbal’s leg on its excuse. One day Akbar used to pretend to be ashamed of Birbal and took him to a tobacco farm. By going there, they got rid of a donkey in the field to graze. Donkey did not even smell tobacco Seeing this, Akbar Badshah said: See Birbal, what kind of tobacco is bad thing.
Do not eat it up to the donkey. Birbal knew that Maharaj was telling the truth, but he was also compelled by his habit of habitual acceptance. Speak to the speaker: Yes, where the fire! It is true, donkeys do not eat tobacco.
Humans eat only. The answer to Birbal was heard by the emperor Akbar himself. By the way, Birbal spoke in these ways, but we all know that when an animal knows that tobacco has been harmed for it, why do not we understand this fact?
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