When you face things alone You may have lost your donkey, Mulla Nasrudin, but you don’t have to grieve over it more than you did about the loss of your first wife.
Ah, but if you remember, when i lost my wife, all you villagers said: We’ll find you someone else. So far, nobody has offered to replace my donkey.”
Mulla Nasrudin was walking along the street when he passed another man with a lot of stubble on his face standing outside a shop. Nasrudin asked: “How often do you shave? Twenty or thirty times a day,” answered the man with the stubble. “What! You must be a freak!” exclaimed Nasrudin. “No, I’m only a…
Mulla Nasrudin was cutting a branch off a tree in his garden one day. While he was sawing, a man passed by in the street and said, “Excuse me, but if continue to saw that branch like that, you will fall down with it.” He said this because Nasrudin was sitting Nasrudin said nothing. He…
One hot day, Nasruddin was taking it easy in the shade of a walnut tree. After a time, he started eying speculatively, the huge pumpkins growing on vines and the small walnuts growing on a majestic tree. Sometimes I just can’t understand the ways of God! he mused. Just fancy letting tinny walnuts grow on…
One December day the village boys decided to play a trick on Mulla Nasrudin to fool him. They hid Mullah Nasruddin’s coat when he was performing ablution for Friday ritual. But Mulla Nasrudin perceived that a trick on the way. “Mulla Nasrudin, it’s a cold day, why don’t you wear your coat?” asked one of…
Once, the people of The City invited Mullah Nasruddin to deliver a khutba. When he got on the minbar (pulpit), he found the audience was not very enthusiastic, so he asked “Do you know what I am going to say?” The audience replied “NO”, so he announced “I have no desire to speak to people…
Obligation Mulla Nasrudin nearly fell into a pool one day. A man whom he knew slightly was nearby, and saved him. Every time he met Nasrudin after that he would remind him of the service which he had performed. when this had happened several times Nasrudin took him to the water, jumped in, stood with…