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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Aiwa, efendi, it is sure," he said to Dicky Donovan, who never was surprised at anything that happened.
One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi, as he was winding the muslin of his turban, perceived that it was not long enough; he again tried all he could to bring it to a point, but in vain. The Cogia in great distress took the muslin, and going to the public mart, put it up to auction. Whilst it was being bid for, a person came and bought it.
One day the Cogia went out into the plain, and as he was going along he suddenly saw some men on horseback coming towards him. Cogia Efendi, in a great hurry, set off towards a cemetery, and having reached it took off his clothes, and entering into a tomb lay down.
One day Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi said, 'O Mussulmen, give thanks to God Most High that He did not give the camel wings; for, had He given them, they would have perched upon your houses and chimneys, and have caused them to tumble upon your heads.
'O you foolish man, said the Cogia, 'cannot a ladder be sold anywhere? Nasr Eddin Efendi one day taking hold of some fowls one by one, tied some strips of an apron round their throats, and then let them go. The learned men having assembled round the Cogia, said, 'What was the matter with these fowls? Said the Cogia, 'They merely went into mourning for their slaughtered mothers.
After some time the Cogia again became thirsty, and finding no water, he went to the bits of the melons which he had cut up, and saying, 'This is sprinkled, and this is sprinkled, ate them all. Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi had a lamb which he had fattened to a high degree.
Do you not see that I as well as my tomb am old?" One day Cogia Efendi, putting on very short habiliments, went to the mosque to say his prayers.
The Soldan Ala Eddin was very much incensed and mortified, and exclaimed, 'So there is not one of the ulemas and sheiks in the countries beneath my jurisdiction who can answer these fellows. Whereupon one of the ulemas replied, 'Though none of us can answer these questions, perhaps Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi can. The Emperor, on hearing these words, gave orders to his Tartar messengers to go in quest of Nasr Eddin Efendi.
'Good day, Cogia Efendi, said he, 'please to give me back my altoons. Quoth the Cogia to the Jew, 'You are a merchant, and not a fool; I made a request to God on high, He gave me what I asked; what business had you to fling altoons to me? The Jew said, 'O Cogia of my soul, I said I will have a jest with you.
The story goes, one of the stories of a hundred, that Cogia Nasr Eddin Efendi one day ascending into the pulpit to preach, said, 'O believers, do ye not know what I am going to say to you? The congregation answered, 'Dear Cogia Efendi, we do not know. Then said the Cogia, 'What shall I say to you until you do know? One day the Cogia ascending again into the pulpit, said, 'O Mussulmen, do ye not know what I am going to say to you? 'We do know, they replied.
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