During a lean year, Mushfiqi and his family went hungry. He came to his neighbor:
“You’re rich!.. Give me at least something to borrow so that my family doesn’t die of hunger!”
But the rich neighbor refused the poet.
In desperation, on a dark night Mushfiqi waylaid a flock of his neighbor's sheep returning from the field: he grabbed one ram by the legs, dragged it into his yard and killed it.
A neighbor came to Mushfiqi while he was eating pilaf with his family. Mushfiqi did not admit to the theft and said:
- Bring a witness, prove that this is your ram!
“When the day of the Last Judgment comes,” said the neighbor, “and God becomes the judge, then my ram will come to life, come running and prove that you stole it.” And for stealing, God will send you to hell!
Mushfiqi replied:
- When the day of the Last Judgment comes and the revived ram comes running to prove my theft, I will immediately grab him and take him to the herd. In this way I will get rid of both you and God!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru