Tales of Nasreddin

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One day Nasreddin bought a donkey in the market; but while he was taking it home, two thieves followed him. One of them took the rope from the monkey's neck and tied it round his friend's neck. Then he went away with the donkey. When Nasreddin got home; he turned and saw the young man. He was very surprised. "Where is my donkey?" he said angrily
"I am very sorry" said the thief;" but once I said some very bad things to my mother; and she changed me into a donkey. But because a good man bought me; I am a man again"
Nasreddin untied the man and said:" GO!" And never say bad things to your mother again!" The next day; Nasreddin saw the same donkey in the market again! The other thief was selling it.
Nasreddin went to the donkey and said nti its ear:" Young man; some people will never learn!!":037:

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Nasreddin put two baskets of grapes on his donkey and went to the market. At midday it was very hot; so he stopped in the shade of a big tree. There were several other men there; and all of them had donkeys and baskets of grapes too
After their lunch, they went to sleep. After some times, Nasreddin began to take grapes out of the other men's baskets and to put them in his.
Suddenly one of the men woke up and saw him. "What are you doing?" he said angrily. "Oh" said Nasreddin, "don't worry about me. I am half mad, and I do a lot of strange things." "Then why don't you sometimes take grapes out of your basket and put them in somebody else's basket?"
"You did not understand me," said Nasreddin. "I said that I was half mad, not :021:quit mad."

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Nasreddin went to the pulpit and before he started his sermon he asked the congregation, "Do you know what I will be talking about today?" "No," answered the congregation. "If you don't know then what can I tell you?" he replied and walked away. Next week, he went to the pulpit and asked the same question. This time the congregation answered, "Yes, we do" "If you do, then there is nothing I can tell you," Nasreddin said and walked away again.
Members of the congregation decided that if Nasreddin asked the same question again half of them would say "Yes" and the other half would say "No"
The following week, Nasreddin went to the pulpit and asked the same question again. As they decided, half of them said, "Yes, we do" and the other half said "No, we don't" "In the case, those who know tell the once who don't know," said Nasreddin and walked away again.

[کلوچه]

One day, Nasreddin was riding to the next town. He was tired so he sat in the shade of a huge walnut tree. He took off his turban and his robe, too. He notice pumpkins on the ground a few feet away. He looked at them for a while and said to himself, "God sure works in strange ways. He makes these huge pumpkins grow on short grass and these small walnuts on tall tress with long branches."
Suddenly, a walnut fell off the tree and hit Nasreddin on the head. He jump up in pain, put his turban on and when his pain subsided, he looked up and said: "Forgive me, God. I will never mingle into your affairs again. What would have happen to me if you had pumpkins growing on this tree….."

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A few times Nasreddin brought home some meat but never got a chance to eat it. His wife either ate it herself or gave it to her friends, and each time Nasreddin asked for some meat she said, "The cat stole it. I ran after it but I couldn't catch it."
One day when his wife again told him that the cat had eaten the 2 kilos of meat he had brought, Nasreddin grabbed the cat and weighed it. It weighed 2 kilos. Nasreddin then turned to his wife and said, "If this is the cat then where is the meat? But if this is the meat, then where is the cat?"

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One winter Nasreddin had very little money. His crops had been very bad that year, and he had to live very cheaply. He gave his donkey less food, and when after two days the donkey looked just the same, he said to himself, "The donkey was used to eating a lot. Now he is quickly getting used to eating less; and soon he will get used to living on almost noting."
Each day Nasreddin gave the donkey a little less food, until it was hardly eating anything. Then one day, when the donkey was going to market with a loan of wood on its back, it suddenly died. "How unlucky I am," said Nasreddin. "Just when my donkey had got used to eating hardly anything, it come to the end of its days in its world."