Mullah Nasruddin

One day Nasruddin went to a banquet. As he was dressed rather
shabbily, no one let him in. So he ran home, put on his best robe and
fur coat and returned. Immediately, the host came over, greeted him
and ushered him to the head of an elaborate banquet table. When the
food was served, Nasruddin took some soup with spoon and pushed it to
the his fur coat and said, - Eat my fur coat, eat! It's obvious that
you're the real guest of honor today, not me!
One hot day, Nasruddin was taking it easy in the shade of a walnut
tree. After a time, he started eying speculatively, the huge pumpkins
growingon vines and the small walnuts growing on a majestic tree.
- Sometimes I just can't understand the ways of God! he mused. Just
fancy letting tinny walnuts grow on so majestic a tree and
hugepumpkins on the delicate vines!
Just then a walnut snapped off and fell smack on Mullah Nasruddin's
bald head. He got up at once and lifting up his hands and face to
heavens in supplication, said:
- Oh, my God! Forgive myquestioning your ways! You are all-wise. Where
would I have been now, if pumpkins grew on trees!
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 I have the
same strength as I had inthe prime of my youth.
- How do you mean, Mullah Nasruddin? askedsomebody. Explain yourself.
- In my courtyard, explained Mullah Nasruddin, there is a massive
stone. In my youth I used to try and lift it. I never succeeded.
Neither can I lift it now.