THE ELECTION MEETING

IT was before the elections.The town had invited all candidates to address citizens in the city hall.

Nasrudin was invited, as an exotic local character, to entertain. When all three candidates had spoken, the mulla mounted the plateform and said: “I have come here to offer you my own, special recipe. Make a note of this, and try it on yourselves.”
He went on to say that certain quantities of honey , garlic and fish were to be boiled together and then eaten.

Quite a number of people tried the recipe. The taste was horrible. Several of them stormed Nasrudin’s house, wanting to know what he meant by such a trick.

“well,” said mulla Nasrudin , “I didn’t say I liked it, in fact , I had not tried it on myself. But it seemed such a good idea to me, I wanted to see whether it would work. That’s what
election candidates do, isn't it?

Tyranny of the majority:

AT one position in his life, the entire population of his village had had enough of the pleasantries and confusions of Mulla Nasrudin.

They all went to the magistrate, and he gave a ruling:”Nasrudin,by the will of the people I have to declare that you must leave the village.”

“are they unanimous?” asked the Mulla. “yes, I am afraid so.” “then I refuse to go . there are plenty of them and only one of me. If they don’t like the village as it is , they can leave and build another one. But I, a single individual, how can I even start to build one small house for myself elsewhere?”




(Taken from the subtleties of the inimitable Mulla Nasrudin Idries Shah,---Published by Jonathan Cape).