Dans notre association aujourd’hui, nous tentons de vous faire changer votre façon de penser et votre façon de vivre. Le prophète Mouhammad (sas) informe sa nation que les derniers jours approchent.
One day, Tamerlane and Hodja together take a trip
To a hamam where they start washing as soon as they strip.
While bathing, out of the clear blue, demands His Highness:
- If I were a serf for sale, how much would you bid?
Of course, Hodja knows no cowardice nor shyness:
First he pretends to ponder, then, with customary slyness:
- If you ask me he says, I would bid a hundred quid.
Tamerlane is : You must be insane!
- Out towel here alone is worth at least a hundred.
Hodja shakes with guffaws that he cannot restrain;
Then he bows and blandly says to Tamerlane:
- In fact, it was the towel for which I made my bid.
Written by Orhan Veli Kanik, translated by Talat Sait Halman (1982