 " Itoelah Asalkoe Tobat " ( Perfected Spelling : " Itulah Asalku Tobat " , meaning " Thus Did I Repent " ) tells of Hajji Malik , a former criminal who became devoted to his prayers in his old age . A fellow villager goes to see Malik and asks why he abandoned his criminal ways and embraced Islam . Malik tells his visitor that , fifteen years previously , he and a friend were travelling through the forests when they saw some people burying a box . That night they dug up the box and tried to take it away , hoping it would be treasure . However , upon opening the box , they found it contained the body of a young child . They returned the box and Malik abandoned the life of a criminal . This story was written for Kawan Bergeloet . 
