Once a woodcutter started a lawsuit with a rich man. Although the woodcutter was right, he knew that he could not do without a bribe. He took his best ax and took it to the qadi. “Well,” he thinks, “everything is all right now. I’m right, and the qadi accepted the bribe.” But the rich man was not asleep either. He ordered the servants to take a young, well-fed bull to the qadi and calmly began to wait for the trial. The court convened. Kadiy put on his glasses, laid out books in front of him and began to confer with his assistants. “Why this delay,” the poor man thought and decided that the qadi had forgotten about the ax. “Let me remind him.” “What’s the delay, oh venerable qadi,” said the woodcutter. “Deliver justice as quickly as I cut branches with an ax.” — I saw an ax somewhere in the yard. “Yes, the bull managed to wish for it,” the qadi answered and decided the matter in favor of the rich man.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru