Several people pooled food and sat down to eat. Just then Nasreddin arrived and said:
- Peace be with you, oh misers!
- Why are you making false accusations against us? - asked one of them. - Glory to Allah, none of us are misers!
“If this man is telling the truth,” Nasreddin exclaimed, “then forgive me, O God, for lying in vain!”
Then he sat down in their circle and began to eat for two, but no one dared to make a word.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru