The Man & the Myth – Mulla Nasruddin
Mullah Nasruddin The very embodiment of the wise fool Nasruddin became known to Richard Merrill through the stories collected by Idries Shah, as a Persian Sufi folk character. This […]
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 a bruise on her […]
Mullah Nasruddin said:
Deductive reasoning – “How old are you, Mullah?”, a boy asked. – Mullah Nasruddin responded, “3 years older than my brother”. – “How do you know that?” the boy asked. -“Reasoning!”, said Mullah Nasruddin. “Last year, I heard my brother tell someone that I was 2 years older than him. […]
Laughter is the best medicine: I think we need Mullah Nasruddin
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 a bruise on her eye. “What happened?” Nasruddin asked. She said that she got into a fight with her husband and he beat her. […]
I am as strong in my old age as in my youth …
said Mullah Nasruddin: 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 […]
Mullah Nasruddin was utterly devastated when his (next?) wife died …
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 […]
Ox atop a Pole
Once, Mullah Nasruddin traveled to Konya to borrow money from Jalal, his friend who lived there. Jalal, who knew that Nasruddin and his money were soon parted, put the cash into a purse for safekeeping and instructed the Mullah to be extra cautious on the trip home. All the way […]
Mullah Nasrudin seen fishing in a bucket of water
Mulla Nasrudin sat fishing in a bucket of water. A visitor, wishing to be friendly, asked, “How many have you caught?” “YOU ARE THE NINTH,” said Nasrudin.
Mullah Nasruddin helps a man stuck in a tree
One day, a local man climbed up a rather tall tree. Shortly thereafter, however, as he tried to make his way back down, he soon discovered that the trip down might not be as easy as the trip up. In fact, try as he might, he simply could not figure […]