The Minor Hell by Mostafa Mahmoud

Small shacks may bring happiness and comfort to a person, while luxurious palaces with their walls and dazzling lights can be a minor hell. Some may be surprised, and others may not believe it, but after reading this play by Dr. Mostafa Mahmoud, we will be assured of this view. We learn that every day has a night that must be lived, and every paradise tainted by deceit, lies, and theft must inevitably turn into hell. Here is the businessman "Ahmed Bek Shahawy," his wife, and children, living lives full of extravagance, pleasures, and sins, yet unable to escape the pitfalls that turned their world from bliss to misery. Ahmed Bek, despite his prayers, intelligence, and adeptness, turns to begging for assistance, even just to meet his basic needs, unable to escape a day of reckoning in this world, followed by another in the afterlife.