Nasruddin was preaching in a village for the first time.
"Do you know what I'm going to say?" Nasruddin asked.
"No!" the people shouted.
"How can I preach to people so ignorant?" he said and left.
They begged him to come back.
"Do you know what I'm going to say?" he asked again.
"Yes!" they shouted.
"Good! We can all leave."
But they asked him to try one more time.
"Do you know what I'm going to say?" he asked.
"Yes!" shouted some. "No!" shouted others.
"So let those who know teach those who don't!"
That was Nasruddin's last sermon.
Inspired by: The Turkish Jester, translated by George Borrow, where it is the first story.
Notes: The story also appears in The Sufis by Idries Shah, free to read online at the Idries Shah Foundation.
I included this book in Tiny Tales of Nasruddin, where it is story 168.
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