A Man of Awesome power by Naquib Mahfouz _ A SILENT SONG AND OTHER STORIES
The Plot Summary Tayyib al-Mahdi is a man who believes that he has completed his mission in life and is living a contented, retired existence in an apartment in Nasr City. His current life is peaceful and uneventful. He spends time watching television, reading newspapers or listening to the radio in the comfort of his apartment that he shares with his wife since his daughters are already married. One night, a man of radiant appearance appears to him in a dream and tells him that he has the power to make things happen simply by saying "Be!" At first, Tayyib is skeptical of the dream, but when he tries out his new power by commanding the television to change channels and makes it happen, he realizes that the dream was real. Endowed with the newly acquired power, he sets out to reform his country and the entire planet as he had often wished. He begins to use his power in various ways, such as making a taxi driver's tires explode when the driver refuses to pick him up, mak...