Stories of

Mullah Nasreddin Hodja

 

10. How much longer? ~

 

Nasreddin Hodja's fellow villagers were always trying to baffle him with abstract questions.

`How long will people continue to be born and to die?' they asked one day. Nasreddin Hodja was unruffled.

`That's an easy one.' he said, `Until, of course, the heaven and the hell are completely full.'