Idries Shah: "Jika pot bisa berkembang biak. Suatu hari Nasrudin memin...

"Jika pot bisa berkembang biak. Suatu hari Nasrudin meminjamkan panci masaknya ke tetangga, yang sedang mengadakan pesta. Tetangga mengembalikan mereka, bersama dengan satu ekstra - pot yang sangat kecil. 'Apa ini?' tanya Nasrudin. "Menurut hukum, aku telah memberimu keturunan dari hartamu yang lahir ketika pot ada dalam perawatanku," kata si pelawak. Tak lama kemudian Nasrudin meminjam pot tetangganya, tetapi tidak mengembalikannya. Pria itu datang untuk mengambilnya kembali. 'Sayang!' kata Nasrudin, 'mereka sudah mati. Kami telah menetapkan, bukan, bahwa pot itu fana? '."

--- Idries Shah

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'.