Gone gray

A Mullah Nasruddin story

Gone gray

Mullah Nasruddin
Mullah Nasruddin

Nasreddin often quarreled violently with his elderly mother, and she chided him: “My son! My hair has turned gray — only due to your constant contradicting and quarreling with me!”

He replied: “It may be that your disputes with me have made your hair turn gray, but tell me this: who told you to pull all your teeth?”



 

Excerpted from the forthcoming Extraordinary Adventures of Nasreddin.

 

Sources

Marzolph 109.

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