Once, the people of the City invited Mulla Nasruddin to deliver a khutba (public lecture).
When
he got on the minbar (pulpit), he found the audience was not very
enthusiastic, so he asked "Do you know what I am going to say?"
The
audience replied "NO", so he announced "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 replied "YES" So Mullah
Nasruddin said, "Well, since you already know what I am going to say, I
won't waste any more of your time" and he left.
Now the people
were really perplexed. They decided to try one more time and once again
invited the Mullah to speak the following week.
Once again he
asked the same question - "Do you know what I am going to say?" Now the
people were prepared and so half of them answered "YES" while the other
half replied "NO".
So Mullah Nasruddin said "The half who know what I am going to say, tell it to the other half" and he left!
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