The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
By Idries Shah
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The Sufis ask people to choose a few which especially appeal to them, and turn them over in their mind, making them their own.
Sufi teaching masters say that in this way a breakthrough into a higher wisdom can be effected. A single story can work on many levels, from great humor to initiating profound thought.
Idries Shah's collection of Nasrudin tales is an excellent introduction to Sufi thought and Eastern philosophy.
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I am a hospitable man,
said Nasrudin to a group of cronies at the teahouse.
Very well, then take us all home to supper,
said the greediest.
Nasrudin collected the whole crowd and started toward his house with them.
When he was almost there, he said:
I’ll go ahead and warn my wife: you just wait here.
His wife cuffed him when he told her the news. There is no food in the house – turn them away.
I can’t do that, my reputation for hospitality is at stake.
Very well, you go upstairs and I’ll tell them that you are out.
After nearly an hour the guests became restless and crowded round the door, shouting, Let us in, Nasrudin.
The Mulla’s wife went out to them.
Nasrudin is out.
But we saw him go into the house, and we have been watching the door all the time.
She was silent.
The Mulla, watching from an upstairs window, was unable to contain himself. Leaning out he shouted: I could have gone out by the back door, couldn’t I?
Why We Are Here
Walking one evening along a deserted road, Mulla Nasrudin saw a troop of horsemen coming toward him. His imagination started to work; he saw himself captured and sold as a slave, or impressed into the army.
Nasrudin bolted, climbed a wall into a graveyard, and lay down in an open tomb.
Puzzled at his strange behavior, the men – honest travelers – followed him.
They found him stretched out, tense and quivering.
What are you doing in that grave? We saw you run away. Can we help you?
Just because you can ask a question does not mean that there is a straightforward answer to it,
said the Mulla, who now realized what had happened. "It all depends upon your viewpoint. If you must know, however: I am here because of you, and you are here because of me."
Never Know When It Might Come in Useful
Nasrudin sometimes took people for trips in his boat. One day a fussy pedagogue hired him to ferry him across a very wide river.
As soon as they were afloat the scholar asked whether it was going to be