Mullah Nasruddin

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Nasruddin’s question		Nasruddin’s blanket
One dlay Nasruddin, while passing by a place, had a few apricots in his sleeve. He saw some people who were sitting under a tree. Calling them he asked a question, “if any one of you found out what I have in my sleeve, I will give the biggest apricot to him.” One of them said,” If any one answers this question, he must be having pmphecy.		One winter night while Nasruddin was sleeping he heard a noise that was suddenly made in the street. Having covered himself with his blanket, he came out to know the cause of the noise. Suddenly a smart thief robbced him of his blanket and ran away. He came back home without the blanket. In reply to his wife who was asking about the reason for the noise, Nasruddin said, “All the quarrel was about my blanket.”
How has the camel come?		Only place, but no Palaw (rice)
Nasruddin had a little money. He wanted to hide it some where. At first he dug a hole, kept the money there and covered it with soil. After a while he thought the money was not safe there because it would be discovered soon. He dug another hole and kept the money there. He repeated this action many times. But he was not sure of its security. He removed it out of the last hiding. He put the money into a bag and rode on a donkey taking the bag to a hill top near his house. He fixed a stick vertically in the ground and from it suspended the bag. Iooking at it from a distance Nasruddin commented, “Human being is not a bird to come here and steal the bag,” He came back home. Incidentally a man who was watching Nasruddin from a distance took the money from the bag and poured dung of camel into it. After a few days when Nasruddin was in need of cash, he went to find the bag. When he brought the bag down from the stick, he found dung of a camel in it. He got surprised and said, “It is very interesting. How could a camel reach to a place where a person can’t?”		Once Nasruddin took his students to his house and insisted they should have lunch with him. Moment later, he called his wife and ordered her to cook Palaw for the guests as soon as possible. His wife said, “You order so simply as if you have rice and ghee in the house.” Nasruddin became very angry and said: “Can’t you at least bring empty plates? His wife accepted and a few minutes later brought the plates to Nasruddin. He took the empty plates and placed them in front of the guests. “Friends!” he said, “If I had bought rice and ghee, I would have brought you an oily Palaw in these plates.”
Rescuing the moon		Planting flax
Nasruddin was looking at the image of the moon in a well. He thought it was a recompense to take out the moon from the well. Therefore, he threw a rope inside the well and swung it a few times. Incidentally, the tip of the rope got caught to a big stone. He tried to take the rope out. Hence he pulled it with a lot of force. The rope tore off and he fell on his hack to the ground. When he looked at the sky, he saw the moon and said, “Doesn’t matter. My efforts were not wasted. Though I faced a lot of difficulties, I finally succeeded to rescue the moon.”		Once Nasruddin went to a hair dresser to get his head shaved. Incidentally, the barber was inexperienced. The moment he cut a part of his scalp, he would put a piece of cotton on the wound. Finally Nasruddin became angry and told the barber, “You planted cotton on half of my head. I would like to grow flax in the remaimng half.”
Nightingale with an unpleasant tune		Nawoozobillah
Once Nasruddin went to a garden and climbed on apricot tree. The gardener observed this and asked him, “Why did you climb someone else’s tree?” Nasruddin answered, “Don’t you know I am nightingale and for nightingales climbing a tree is not a sin.” The gardener laughed and said, “Please sing so I listen and enjoy.” Nasruddin started to sing in his horse voice. The gardener asked him whether nightingale sang so badly. Nasruddin replied, “A nightingale which eats raw apricot will not sing better than this.”		Once a king consulted Nasruddin. “Daring the Abasis and after, khalifs used to add the term “Allah" after their names. What title do you think I should choose for myself? Nasruddin answered “Nawoozobillah” (God forbid).
Lack of etiquettes		Because of lack of time
Nasruddin went to a judge’s office to divorce his wife. The judge asked him, “What is your wife’s name?” He answered. “I don’t know.” “For how many years havd you remained as spouses?” The judge asked again. He said “More than 20 years”. The judge asked him. “How come you don’t know her name?” Nasruddin answered, “Because I did not have any social relations with her.”		Once a person slapped Nasruddin in the street. Later he came hack and started to apologize and said that he had mistaken Nasruddin for some one else. But Nasruddin was not satisfied and took tight hold of his collar, took him to the judge and told the judge about the incident. The judge ordered, “Nasruddin must slap that person to avenge. But Nasruddin didn’t get satisfied. Thus the judge ordered the person to give Nasruddin a gold coin in lieu of the slap. The accused had to go out of the court to bring the gold coin. Nasruddin waited for sometime. The accused didn’t come hack. Nasruddin stood up and slapped the judge on his face and said, “Since I have a lot of work, whenever that person Comes and brings the coin, You take the money for this slap.”