DEDUCTIVE REASONING
"HOW OLD ARE YOU, MULLA? SOMEONE ASKED, 'THREE YEARS OLDER
THAN MY BROTHER.'HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? 'REASONING. LAST YEAR. I HEARD MY
BROTHER TELL SOMEONE THAT I WAS TWO YEARS OLDER THAN HIM. A YEAR HAS PASSED.
THAT MEANS THAT I AM OLDER BY ONE YEAR. I SHALL SOON BE OLD ENOUGH
TO BE HIS GRANDFATHER.'
TIT FOR TAT
NASRUDDIN WENT INTO A SHOP TO BUY A PAIR OF TROUSERS. THEN
HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND CHOSE A CLOAK INSTEAD, AT THE SAME PRICE. PICKING
UP THE CLOAK HE LEFT THE SHOP. "YOU HAVE NOT PAID," SHOUTED
THE MERCHANT. "I LEFT YOU THE TROUSERS, WHICH WERE OF THE SAME VALUE
AS THE CLOAK." "BUT YOU DID NOT PAY FOR THE TROUSERS EITHER.OF
COURSE NOT,SAID MULLAH ;WHY SHOULD I PAY FOR SOMETHING THAT I DID NOT WANT
TO BUY?"
MORE USEFUL
ONE DAY MULLAH NASRUDDIN ENTERED HIS FAVORITE TEAHOUSE AND SAID:'THE
MOON IS MORE USEFUL THAN THE SUN'. AN OLD MAN ASKED 'WHY MULLA?'
NASRUDDIN REPLIED 'WE NEED THE LIGHT MORE DURING THE NIGHT THAN DURING
THE DAY.'
PROMISES KEPT
A FRIEND ASKED THE MULLA HOW OLD ARE YOU? FORTY REPLIED
THE MULLAH. THE FRIEND SAID BUT YOU SAID THE SAMETHING TWO YEARS
AGO ! YES REPLIED THE MULLAH, I ALWAYS STAND BY WHAT I HAVE SAID.
WHEN YOU FACE THINGS ALONE
YOU MAY HAVE LOST YOUR DONKEY, NASRUDDIN, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE
TO GRIEVE OVER IT MORE THAN YOU DID ABOUT THE LOSS OF YOUR FIRST WIFE.
AH, BUT IF YOU REMEMBER, WHEN I LOST MY WIFE, ALL YOU VILLAGERS SAID: WE'LL
FIND YOU SOMEONE ELSE. SO FAR, NOBODY HAS OFFERED TO REPLACE MY DONKEY."
OBLIGATION
NASRUDDIN NEARLY FELL INTO A POOL ONE DAY. A MAN WHOM HE
KNEW SLIGHTLY WAS NEARBY, AND SAVED HIM. EVERY TIME HE MET NASRUDDIN
AFTER THAT HE WOULD REMIND HIM OF THE SERVICE WHICH HE HAD PERFORMED. WHEN
THIS HAD HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES NASRUDDIN TOOK HIM TO THE WATER, JUMPED
IN, STOOD WITH HIS HEAD JUST ABOVE WATER AND SHOUTED: "NOW I AM AS
WET AS I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF YOU HAD NOT SAVED ME! LEAVE ME ALONE.
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