LAUGHING STOCK
Mulla Nasrudin used to stand in the street on market days, to be pointed out as an idiot. No matter how often people offered him a choice between a large and a small coin, he always chose the smaller piece.
One day a kindly man said to him:
“Mulla, you should take the bigger coin. Then you will have more money and people will no longer be able to make a laughing stock of you.”
“That might be true,” said Nasrudin, “but if I always take the larger, people will stop offering me the money to prove that I an more idiotic than they are. Then I would have no money at all.
Sufi
Mulla Nasrudin used to stand in the street on market days, to be pointed out as an idiot. No matter how often people offered him a choice between a large and a small coin, he always chose the smaller piece.
One day a kindly man said to him:
“Mulla, you should take the bigger coin. Then you will have more money and people will no longer be able to make a laughing stock of you.”
“That might be true,” said Nasrudin, “but if I always take the larger, people will stop offering me the money to prove that I an more idiotic than they are. Then I would have no money at all.
Sufi
