Moon In A Bowl of Water
One night the poet Awhadi of Kerman was sitting on his porch, bent over a vessel. Shams e-Tabrizi happened to pass by. Shams: What are you doing?
Barber and the White Hairs
A bearded man went to a barber shop and said to the master barber: I am bringing home a new wife; I would like you to cut off the...
Who Is It
A lover knocked at the door of his beloved. Who is it? she replied. The lover replied, It is I. Go away....
The Swearing Arab and God’s Message
One day the Prophet Mohammad was performing the morning prayer in the mosque. An Arab aspirant of Islam was among others praying with the Prophet. Mohammad happened to recite...
Take My Hand
One day Mulla Nasrudin saw a crowd gathered around a pond. A Moslem priest with a huge turban on his head had fallen in the water and was...
The Tiger and the Fox
A fox who lived in the deep forest of long ago had lost its front legs. No one knew how: perhaps escaping from a trap. A man who lived...