Once upon a time in the Middle East, there lived a man named Mulla. He was always happy and gay. He wanted to see everyone happy. He used to help people in their bad times and participate in all activities. He himself was a wanderer. One day, Mulla came upon a frowning man walking along the road to town. “What’s wrong?” he asked.The man held a tattered bag and moaned, “All that I own in this wide world is this miserable, wretched sack.” “Too bad,” said Mulla, and with that he snatched the bag from the man’s hands and ran down the road with it.
Having lost everything, the man burst into tears and, more miserable than before, continued walking. Meanwhile, Mulla quickly ran around the bend and placed the man’s sack in the middle of the road where he would have to come upon it. When the man saw his bag lying on the road before him, he laughed with joy, and shouted, “My sack! I thought I’d lost you!” Watching through the bushes, Mulla chuckled, “Well, that’s one way to make someone happy!”
