His friends were trying their best to console him, inviting him for dinner, coffee, tea … nothing seemed to work.

Mullah’s best friend told him “when your father died you were not so devastated, when your mother died you recovered…”

“Yes”, answered Mullah Nasruddin, “when my father died some of you said, ‘do not worry, I am just like your father’, you said ‘do not be sad, I am just like your brother’, your sister said ‘do not cry, I am like your sister’ ‘and when my wife died no body said “I am like your wife” … !