Short Story: Mullah Nasruddin teaches his son, and he gets paid handsomely, for his doing so.

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The Mullah's son, Abdul, could not yet read, and he used to ask his father to read to him from his scrolls. The Mullah told his son that this was his job, at the mosque, to read, to teach, and to interpret these scriptural tomes to the people. He was paid handsomely for his doing so, by donations collected for him. What would the son give to him as payment for his time, and effort in doing this, solely for his son? "No", he said, "next Saturday night, when I give my talk to the people's, you can come, and sit in the front row of the assembled crowd, and listen to me then too." The son went to the mosque, and he sat in the front row, and at the end of his father's talk, he stood up, and he said, "This talk deserves more money than you usually give to my father, because he was giving it to pay for my own education too." The Mullah was very pleased, and he was also proud of his son; much money was collected that night, as much as he usually got in a month. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Some of the Mullah's considerable nous had rubbed off onto his son.