One
day, a man climbed up a tree. While climbing up, he did not realise how tall
the tree actually was and kept climbing up. On reaching the top, when the man
looked down, he realised that climbing down from the tree would not be as easy
as climbing up. He could not think of any way of getting down without injuring
himself seriously.
He
asked the people who were passing by to help him. But nobody could think of a
way of bringing him down safely. Soon, quite a few people gathered around the
tree and tried to help the man, but no one knew what to do. The man remained
stuck on top of the tree.
Just
then, Nasruddin, who was walking by, saw this scene and wondered what was going
on. The people standing around the tree told Nasruddin about the situation.
“Oh!” Nasruddin said, “I’ll get him down in no time.” He took a long rope and
threw one end of it up to the man telling him to tie the rope around his waist.
Everyone
wondered what Nasruddin’s plan was. When one of them asked him, Nasruddin
replied, “Just leave it to me. It’s a foolproof plan.”
When
the man on the tree had tied the rope tightly around his waist, Nasruddin pulled
the rope with all his force. As soon as Nasruddin did this, the man fell down
from the tree and hurt himself badly. The bystanders were shocked at this. They
turned to Nasruddin and asked, “What were you thinking? What kind of a silly
plan was that?”
Nasruddin
replied, “Well, once I did exactly the same thing and saved someone’s life.”
One man
asked him, “Is that true?”
“Absolutely!”
replied Nasruddin, “The only thing I cannot remember is whether I saved him
from a tree or from a well.”
The End
