Short Story: Mullah Nasruddin's father in law was not as bright as the Mullah was.

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Mullah Nasruddin's father in law was looking to help the Mullah to wash his car. There was a bucket filled with warm, sudsy water there, sitting on the concrete, next to the Mullah's car, in his driveway. The father in law came up to the car, and he looked down into the bucket of water there right beside it. The old man asked Mullah, if the water had soap in it, or not, already. Mullah Nasruddin looked down at the soapy bubbles, frothing soapily, in his bucket, and he lost his patience, a bit. "You will have to go, and ask Fatima (the Mullah's wife) about that," he said. "It was she that prepared the water for me." Why do some people ask stupidly obvious questions, at times, like this? Why do we lose our patience if they do? How did the Mullah answer himself? The Mullah smiled, as he said, "Patience is the vice of fools, as wise men have no time for it at all. We act before patience needs to be applied, because, we always know how to act." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The Mallah's father-in-law was always trying the Mullah's patience