Having one Master’s in Historical Studies and Research and another in Education curriculum planning and Instruction, I worked with manuscripts in various museums and libraries. My acquaintance with manuscripts and their stories began during my childhood. I remember roaming around my grandfather’s papers and manuscripts, hearing their stories. Once, for example, I asked about a certain drawing folio, and I listened to the story of an artist who paid for his dental visits to my grandfather’s office with his drawings. Stories I’ve heard from my father about his great maternal grandfather, Ahmad al-Naraqi intertwined with the stories I read in my studies on manuscripts and created a sense of self-awareness about the power of stories. Stories, to me, are the Islands of security that console us through the hours of agony. Storiesamuse our souls, create mysterious sympathies with heroines and heroes, and help us find solace in their eternal secrets. As viable sources of healing our traumas, stories shelter us and allow us to transform. We travel with the heroines-heroes through their ordeals and trials, share their experiences and achievements, and unluck our inner consciousness. Manuscripts, along with their authors, scribes, illuminators, painters, and marginal writings, are tools to raise and transform our consciousness to a higher level. That is precisely why these lesson plans are completed. Sharing them with a greater audience, I hope these stories, in the form of lesson plans, erase the readers’ anxieties, and help them find their center of existence. Used through the pandemic for young adult students, I personally noticed the power of these stories to evoke the quality of the student’s characters, raise their level of consciousness, and help them deal with their surroundings. Homira Pashai