In the beginning when the world was new, the animals were beginning to do work for Man. There also lived a camel in the middle of the Howling desert. He did not work at all. He only ate sticks, thorns and prickles. Whenever somebody came to meet him, he would merely reply, “humph”.
Since the camel did not work, the other animals were very unhappy with him. One-by-one, they came to call him. First, came the horse. He told the camel to come with him and do some work like the other animals. The camel only said “humph”. The horse went back and reported this to the Man.
Thereafter, the dog and the ox also came to call the camel. He, likewise, only said “humph”. And both the animals went away sadly.
Work pressure and the Panchayat
At the end of the day, the man called the horse, the dog and the ox. Since the camel was not working, he asks the three of them to do double work in order to compensate the loss of work. The three animals became very angry with the camel. They were asked to do more work simply because the camel would not do his share of work. They held a Panchayat at the edge of the desert to decide. Seeing this, the camel laughed at the three and went by.
The Djinn met the Camel
At this point, there came the Dijnn. After hearing the story of the three animals, the Djinn decided to set the camel right. The Djinn tried to explain the camel that being idle was a bad thing and the other three animals were over loaded because of him. The camel merely says ‘humph’.
The camel looks at his back and humph with proud and tells the Djinn that he cannot work with that humph on his back. At this, the Djinn replied, that humph on his back. At this, the Djinn replied, that the camel himself is responsible for bringing this humph on his back. He also told him that because the camel did not work for three days; his hump would enable him to work continuously for three would enable him to work continuously for three days. However, till date the camel has not been able to catch up with the work he missed out on.