The Tales of Mulla Nasruddin

Is Mulla Nasruddin the silliest man in town, or the wisest? He feeds soup to his coat, rescues the moon from a well and lends a pot that has a baby. Six short, funny tales of the wise fool, loved from Turkey to India and Pakistan. By Pagehush Retellings (2026). Traditional tales of Mulla Nasruddin (Nasreddin Hodja), told from Turkey and Persia to India and Pakistan for six hundred years, retold in our own words.

⇄ हिन्दी में पढ़ेंमुल्ला नसरुद्दीन की कहानियाँ · वही कहानी › How it begins One evening a rich man in Mulla Nasruddin's town held a grand feast, and everyone was invited. Nasruddin had spent the whole day working in his garden. He was so hungry that he went straight to the feast in his old work clothes, with mud on his sleeves and a hole in his elbow.At the door, the servants looked him up and down and frowned. Nobody greeted him. Nobody offered him a seat. He was pushed into a corner, and the dishes of rice and roast meat and sweets went past him again and again, to all the guests in fine clothes, and never once stopped in front of him. Keep reading →

Chapters

1. 1Eat, My Coat, Eat!2 min · 27 Oct
2. 2The Moon in the Well2 min · 27 Oct
3. 3Where the Light Is2 min · 27 Oct
4. 4Everyone Has an Opinion2 min · 27 Oct
5. 5The Pot That Had a Baby2 min · 27 Oct
6. 6The Sermon2 min · 27 Oct

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