Molla Nasreddin should give a promise that he will send his magazine as a gift to the people who will answer the following questions and send it back to our office.
- In which city, were all twelve Muslim clerks of the courthouse so ignorant that only one of them could, with difficulty, write his own name
- If a Sunni man drinks water from a bowl, may a Shiite man drink from that bowl or not? Should he clean that bowl or not?
- Where are more stars: in the sky or in the qumarxana (gambling house) of the Muslim bazaar?
- How do you kindly stop the Mullah from attending a house of mourning just so he can eat pilaf? How do we kindly stop the women from gathering just to cry together?
- Where can we get a textbook to educate a Muslim child in the Turkish language?
- What is the cause of laziness and dishonorableness? Which countries are like this?
- Why do the snakes carried in a box from Iran not bite anyone, but Iranians?
- When there was a conflict between Armenians and Muslims, what was the reason for government soldiers getting so ill that doctors recommended them not to go out?
- What happened to the four hundred Manats collected in the Yerevan theatre for “Ushi” Peoples? Where did it go?
Molla Nasreddin, April 7, 1906
Source: Ömər Faiq Nemanzadə Seçilmiş Əsərləri, Yazıçı, 1992
