The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah

Author:Idries Shah [Shah, Idries]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ISF Publishing
Published: 2015-10-21T04:00:00+00:00

Prayer Is Better than Sleep...

AS SOON AS he had intoned the Call to Prayer from his minaret, the Mulla was seen rushing away from the mosque.

Someone shouted: “Where are you going, Nasrudin?”

The Mulla yelled back: “That was the most penetrating call I have ever given. I’m going as far away as I can to see at what distance it can be heard.”

What Is to Be

A FARMER ASKED Nasrudin whether his olives would bear in that year.

“They will bear,” said the Mulla.

“How do you know?”

“I just know, that is all.”

Later the same man saw Nasrudin trotting his donkey along a seashore, looking for driftwood.

“There is no wood here, Mulla, I have looked,” he called out.

Hours later the same man saw Nasrudin wending his way home, tired out, still without fuel.

“You are a man of perception, who can tell whether an olive tree will bear or not. Why can’t you tell whether there is wood on a seashore?”

“I know what must be,” said Nasrudin, “but I do not know what may be.”

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