Your page title

Once, the Mullah was invited by the people of the city to deliver a sermon.

He began by asking "Do you know what I am going to say?" The audience replied "No, sir, we don’t."

Gathering up his robes around him in annoyance, he declared: "I have no desire to speak to people who don't even know what I will be talking about." And he left.

The people felt embarrassed and called him back again the next day. This time when he asked the same question, the people quickly chorused, "Yes, yes, we do!" at which Nasruddin snapped, "Well, since you already know what I am going to say, I won't waste any more of your time and mine." And again he walked off.

Now the people were really perplexed, in fact, some were thoroughly annoyed; so they worked on a new strategy. They decided to invite the Mullah to speak again the following week. This time too, he asked the very same question - "Do you know what I am going to say?"

The people had planned their response, and so half of them answered "Yes!" while the other half replied, just as strongly, "No!"

This time, they were sure, they had him.

Mullah Nasruddin looked slowly around the room: "Those of you who know what I am going to say, can tell it to the other half who don’t…" and swept out once again.