A Mullah Nasruddin / Nasreddin Hoca story
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One day in the chai shop, Mali asked Nasruddin, “Why is it that you never speak your wife’s name?”
“Because I have no idea what it is,” said the Mullah.
“What‽ How long have you been married?”
“We’ve been married maybe twenty years, give or take a few.”
Jafar asked, “Mullah, you’re married now for two decades and you don’t know your wife’s name‽”
Nasruddin said, “When we were wed, by our parents’ arrangement, I had no intention of making a go at the marriage, so why should I learn her name?”
Mali said, “It’s Fatima, you dolt. You really can’t remember the year you married Fatima, your wife?”
“To tell the truth, I don’t remember exactly when we were wed,” Nasruddin replied. “As should be clear to you by now, it happened long before I had any sense whatsoever.”
Excerpted from
Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin
by Ron J. Suresha
now in print from Lethe Press
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