Nizmat Khan said that a certain man from Merv, the city famous for its sages, alarmed all the inhabitants one night. He rushed headlong down the street and screamed at the top of his lungs: “Thief! Thief!" People began to come running to the screams, and when he calmed down a little, they asked him:
- Where is the thief?
- In the house... my...
-Have you seen him?
- No.
-Are you missing anything?
- No.
- So why did you decide that a thief visited you?
“I was already lying in bed, it was late, and there was such silence around me, it was eerie. And then I remembered that thieves climb into the house without making a single sound and do their job so silently that even a mouse would not be alarmed. That's when I realized that there was a thief in the house. After all, I didn’t hear anything, that’s it, you fools!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru