One day a holy fool met Harun al-Rashid of Baghdad.
-Where are you coming from, wanderer? - asked the ruler.
“From hell,” he answered.
- And what were you doing there?
“I needed a fire to light my pipe, and I decided to ask if the inhabitants of hell would share it with me.”
- Well, how did you get some fire? - asked Harun al-Rashid.
- No, the king there replied that they did not have it. Of course, I asked, how can this be? To which the owner of hell replied: “I tell you, we have no fire here, everyone comes with their own.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru