Mullah Nasruddin Feeds His Coat
Part of Moral Tales Adapted from a Middle Eastern Islamic folk tale which is attributed to different countries, including Turkey and Syria. Mullah Nasruddin had been working in the fields all […]
God’s Will (retold by Nasruddin)
When I was no longer needed as a Mulla in the village, I moved to another region and found a convenient place outside a small town, on a hill. The […]
Sufism: ‘a natural antidote to fanaticism’
Source: The Guardian By Jason Webster Jason Webster on why the republication of Idries Shah book about Sufism – whose enthusiasts have included Winston Churchill, Ted Hughes and Doris Lessing – […]
Mullah Nasruddin Jokes
Mullah Nasruddin Jokes Vengeance – Nasruddin style One day, Mullah Nasruddin heard a knock on his door. He opened the door and found his daughter standing there crying with […]
Alone in the Desert (retold by Nasruddin)
Ah, it was a time of bustling cities and pressing obligations! After a time, I grew weary of the pace and needed a respite, a quiet time in which to gather my inner peace again. So I took the barest necessities and went into the desert, to be alone in […]
The Sweetest Strawberry the World Has Ever Known (retold by Nasruddin)
Good day! My name is Nasruddin. I was born in Amritsar in the Punjab, in India. Or…it was so long ago… it may have been in Cairo, in Egypt. In fact, I think it was Newark, New Jersey, though my uncle claims it was Turkey, and my birth certificate […]
Cause and effect
One evening Mulla Nasruddin quarrelled with his wife and shouted at her so fiercely that she fled for refuge to a neighbouring house, where he followed her. As it happened a wedding feast was in progress, and the hosts and guests did all they could to calm him down, and […]
The Reason
The Mulla went to see a rich man. ‘Give me some money.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I want to buy … an elephant.’ ‘If you have no money, you can’t afford to keep an elephant’. ‘I came here’, said Mullah Nasrudin, ‘to get money, not advice.’
Don’t ask me, ask my donkey!
Nasruddin rode his little grey donkey, Karakacan, sitting backward as usual, facing his students. As he was about to make a point, suddenly there was a series of loud pops […]
The moon is more useful than the sun
ONE DAY MULLAH NASRUDDIN ENTERED HIS FAVORITE TEAHOUSE AND SAID: ‘THE MOON IS MORE USEFUL THAN THE SUN.’ AN OLD MAN ASKED ‘WHY MULLAH?’ NASRUDDIN REPLIED ‘WE NEED THE LIGHT […]
A question of time …
Let us enjoy reading this Mulla Nasruddin Hodja’s Story of A Question of Time . Nasruddin Hodja was tilling his patch of land when a hunter came riding up. “Hey, […]
Could Greece learn something from Mulla Nasruddin? Just wondering….
NASRUDDIN WENT INTO A SHOP TO BUY A PAIR OF TROUSERS WITH A RECENT CASH ADVANCE HE JUST RECEIVED. THEN HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND CHOSE A CLOAK INSTEAD, AT THE SAME PRICE. PICKING UP THE CLOAK HE LEFT THE SHOP. “YOU HAVE NOT PAID,” SHOUTED THE MERCHANT. “I LEFT […]
People of the City invited Mulla Nasruddin to deliver a khutba
Once, the people of The City invited Mulla 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 […]
Mulla Nasruddin contemplating a marriage …
A rich farmer had been trying desperately to marry off his daughters. One day he met Mulla Nasrudin. “I have several daughters,” the farmer told the Mulla. “I would like to see them comfortably fixed. And I will say this, they won’t go to their husbands without a little bit […]
Mulla Nasruddin and THE DOOR
Mulla Nasruddin used to carry a door with him wherever he went. When somebody asked him about it, he replied: ”It is just a security measure. Nobody can enter my […]
The Sweetest Strawberry the World Has Ever Known (retold by Nasruddin)
Good day! My name is Nasruddin. I was born in Amritsar in the Punjab, in India. Or…it was so long ago… it may have been in Cairo, in Egypt. In fact, I think it was Newark, New Jersey, though my uncle claims it was Turkey, and my birth certificate says […]
Mullah Nasruddin
Nasruddin became known to Richard Merrill through the stories collected by Idries Shah, as a Persian Sufi folk character. This incredible personage come to life as a direct-manipulation puppet in the hands of puppeteer Richard Merrill of Brooksville, Maine. History break: In Turkey, he is known as Nasreddin Hodja of […]
Give me nine …
One Less Gold Mullah Nasruddin was dreaming that someone had counted nine gold pieces into his hand, but Mullah Nasruddin insisted that he would not accept less than ten pieces. […]