Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00027)

Hi all,

A regular listener in on this list (though apparently not a member), 
sent this joke in response to my suggestion that we have a bit of 
humor here. Not surprising perhaps - it is a sufi joke. Sufi jokes 
are often very funny and spiritually interesting at the same time. 
This is no exception:

> > "Nasrudin, ferrying a pedant across a piece of rough water, said 
> > something ungrammatical to him. "Have you never studied grammar?" 
> > asked the scholar.
> > "No."
> > "Then half of your life has been wasted."
> > A few minutes later Nasrudin turned to the passager.
> > "Have you ever learned how to swim?"
> > "No. Why?"
> > "Then all your life is wasted - we are sinking!"

For more such stories see:
http://www.katinkahesselink.net/sufi/stories2.html

Katinka