From: sassan@locus.com (Sassan Behzadi)
Subject: The Sign...
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:34:40 GMT


O' Ye readers of SCI. Have you not noticed? Did we not warn you?

Did we not say that one day there will be one who shall call himself 
"FARID" and proclaim himself the protector of all who live in the
Northen Lands? Did we not say that he shall demand rights from those 
who themselves have no rights.

Did we not say that one day there will be two who shall call themselves
"Zafar" and "Seyyed"; and that they shall proclaim to know all about
Islam and shall take every opportunity to tell you so?

Did we not say that one day there will be one who shall call himself
"Babak" - and although at the time we had no idea what he would proclaim -
did we not say that it would involve your sisters and your mothers?

Did we not say that when all these signs come to be, the inevitable
shall happen? And thus it has. It is now - as we had warned you -
time for.....


Some Mulla Nasruddin Jokes!!!

Enjoy!

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THE TURBAN [amAmeh]

An illiterate man brought a letter to Mulla Nasruddin and asked him 
to read it for him.

"But the handwriting is so bad", said Mulla, "that I can't even begin 
to read."

The man became angry and replied, "Look at yourself. you wear the
turban of the sage and a learned man, yet you can't even read a letter!"
Mulla unwrapped his turban and placed it in front of the man and said:
"If you think that anyone who wears a turban is a learned man, 
then YOU wear it and see if YOU can read the letter."



AT THE MILL [AssiAb]

Once Mulla went into the the nearby mill and when no one was watching
began to take handfuls of grain from some other persons sack and
place them into his own. The miller arrived and demanded: "What are
you doing?"

"I'm just a fool [khol]," said Mulla. "I simply do what comes to my
mind."

"Well, how come it never came to your mind to take YOUR grain and
put it in someone else's sack?" asked the miller.

"Well sir," snapped Mulla, "I said I was a fool, not an idiot!"



RETRIBUTION [talAfi]

Mulla was walking down the street one day when a man approached
him and slapped him deliberately across the face. Mulla was stunned.
He stopped and stared at the man. The man took one look at Mulla's 
face and realized that he had slapped the wrong man, so he began
to apologize. But Mulla would not accept his apology and took him
before the judge.

Upon hearing the whole story, the judge pondered the matter and said
to Mulla: "In retribution, you may also slap the man." But Mulla would
not accept this judgement. So the judge told the man to give Mulla a
gold coin as compensation for hitting him. The man accepted this
but said that since he had no money with him, he would go home to
fetch the coin.

Mulla waited for quite some time. But the man did not return. 
After a while he got tired of waiting and walked up to the judge
and slapped him deliberately across the face and then said:
"Your honor, I have a great deal of business to attend to and I
must leave immediately. Could you please accept the gold coin
on my behalf when the man comes back?"


THE SUN OR THE MOON?

Mulla was once asked whether the Sun or the Moon was more useful,
to which he answered: "The Moon of course! The Sun comes out during
the day, when it is already light, so it's not that useful. But the
Moon, aahh... the Moon, IT comes out when it's pitch black and light 
up the whole night."



From the book:
	"The Classic Tales of Mulla Nasreddin"
	Retold By: Houman Farzad
	Translated By: Diane L. Wilcox

	Mazda Publishers
	P.O. Box 2603
	Costa Mesa, CA 92626 USA



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