Nasruddin was clever. He had a habit of praying aloud. Every day he used to pray for one thousand gold coins. In his prayer he said that if God gave him one coin lesser, he would not accept the money.
A neighbour who heard the prayer of Nasruddin wanted to test Nasruddin and threw a bag of 999 coins into Nasruddin’s house. Nasruddin counted the coins. Though there were no 1000 coins, he accepted the money. The neighbour asked him how he could accept the money when they were 999 coins only. He said that he was the person who had thrown the money into his house.
Nasruddin said that he would accept the money as it was given to him by God. But the neighbour wanted his money back. Nasruddin refused to give it back. The neighbour asked Nasruddin to come to the court for justice. He offered his coat and his horse to come to the court. He told everything to the judge. Nasruddin played a trick and made the judge believe that the money, the coat and the horse belonged to him.
The neighbour felt sorry and said that he would never interfere in Nasruddin’s matters. Then Nasruddin gave him his money, horse and coat back.
