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 barber,” replied the man with the stubble.
“May the Will of Allah be done,” a pious man was saying about something or the other. “It always is, in any case,” said Mulla Nasrudin. “How can you prove that, Mulla?” asked the man. “Quite simply. If it wasn’t always being done, then surely at some time or another my will would be done,…
Once, when Mulla Nasrudin was visiting a Western town, he was invited to attend a fashion show. He went, and afterwards he was asked how he liked it. “It’s a complete swindle!” he exclaimed indignantly. “Whatever do you mean?” he was asked. “They show you the women – and then try to sell you the…
A certain conqueror said to Mulla Nasrudin: “Mulla, all the great rulers of the past had honorific titles with the name of God in them: there was, for instance, God-Gifted, and God-Accepted, and so on. How about some such name for me?” “God Forbid,” said Nasrudin.
At a gathering where Mullah Nasruddin was present, people were discussing the merits of youth and old age. They had all agreed that, a man’s strength decreases as years go by. Mullah Nasruddin dissented. I don’t agree with you gentlemen, he said. In my old age I have the same strength as I had in…
“When I was in the desert,” said Mulla Nasrudin one day, “I caused an entire tribe of horrible and bloodthirsty bedouins to run.” “However did you do it?” “Easy. I just ran, and they ran after me.”
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…