Nasrudin

From time to time, I will be posting some stories about Mulla Nasrudin. No,he is not some evil Taliban, stoning adultresses. He probably existed in the 12th or 13th century in an area of Persia called Khorasan. He was a Sufi teacher and local mulla. His zen like parables spread throughout Persia,Central Asia and Turkey. Today a book has been written in the west using Nasrudin's philosophy to guide corporate management. The thesis is so oxymoronic that one thinks the Mulla just might approve. Anyway here is our first Nasrudin story.

Thankful not to loose myself

One day there was news in every corner of the town about the Mullah's donkey which he lost it. When his neighbours heard the news they got sad and decided to go to mullah's house and help him to find his donkey. So they came to mullah's house and they saw that mullah is very happy and very thankful from god! They find it very interesting and asked mullah: " Mullah aren't you sad about loses of your donkey?" Mullah laughed and said I am happier because god helped me that I was not riding it other wise I was lost as well.