“Humor and patience are two camels that will get you through any desert”

“Humor and patience are two camels that will get you through any desert” Arabic proverb A mullah rides his camel for many days through the desert and finally comes to a wonderful oasis. There he sees three young men sitting dejectedly by a herd of camels on the side of the road. He speaks to them and says: “My sons, why do you look so sad?” One of them tells them that their father has died and left them a magnificent herd of camels. The mullah replies, aghast: “In the face of such beautiful animals, you can thank Allah and your father for leaving you such an inheritance.” The eldest brother agrees, but explains that the legacy cannot be carried out because according to the will, the eldest should get half of the herd, the middle one a third and the youngest one a ninth. However, with 17 camels, this is not possible. So they are desperate and do not know how to solve the problem. The Mullah looks up to the sky, smiles, gets off his camel and leads it to the brothers' other 17 camels. "Suppose I gave you my camel, what would you do?" The brothers are awed by the conjunctivistic help, look at each other in awe and raise their eyebrows. Then something flashes in the eyes of the youngest. He calculates as if they owned 18 camels and as a result the oldest gets 9, the middle one 6 and the youngest 2 camels. Do they now have to be eternally grateful to the Mullah? The test in reality shows that the Mullah's camel remains. The Mullah sits on his camel, calls out salem aleikum to the brothers and rides away laughing. What is the moral of the story? Sometimes - in the search for solutions - we just have to "pretend" and be amazed. Solutions are closer than we sometimes think.