One day Mulla met a man selling a parrot at the bazaar and asked:
- What is this?
“Parrot,” they answered him.
- How much does it cost?
- Fifty coins.
Mullah, without saying a word, returned home, caught a turkey and brought it to the market.
“Mulla,” they asked him, “how much do you want for your turkey?”
- Five hundred coins.
“Ay, Mulla,” they began to reason with him, “have you gone crazy, or what?” Can a turkey cost that much?
Mulla pointed to the parrot seller:
“He sells such a small bird for fifty, you don’t say anything, but I valued a turkey the size of a whole ram at five hundred coins, and you still reproach me.” Isn't my turkey thirty times bigger than this parrot?
“But it’s a parrot, Mulla,” said one of those present.
- Well, this is a turkey.
- Yes, but the parrot can talk like a preacher.
- So what! The turkey is always immersed in thoughts, like a scientist. What do you think is better?
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru