Once Akbar asked
Birbal to bring four fools of the first order to him. He said - "It is not
difficult because this world is full of fools. Birbal said - "OK" and
asked some time to find them, which Akbar readily gave to him.
Now Birbal started
looking for fools. He was going somewhere that he saw a man carrying a large
plate on which were kept some clothes, betel leaves and sweets. He looked like
a fool to Birbal, so he asked him - "Where are you going to? And to whom
you are carrying this?" The man replied - "My wife has remarried. Now
they have a child so I am taking this gift for them." Birbal got convinced
that he was a fool, so he considered him a candidate to take to the king.
At another time he
saw a man riding a buffalo carrying a bundle of grass on his head. Birbal
thought he was also a fool, so he asked him - "Why are you carrying this
bundle on your head?" The man replied - "In fact my buffalo is
pregnant, so I thought that she should not carry too much load, that is why I
have put this bundle on my own head instead of putting it on it." Birbal
considered him also a candidate to take to the king.
So next morning he
took those people to Akbar's court and presented them to him as the biggest
fools. "But these are only two fools; where are the other two? I
asked you to bring four fools." King asked. Birbal folded his hands and
bending a little said - "Jehaanpanaah, The third fool are you who asked me
to bring the fools; and the fourth fool is me who has brought these fools for
you."
When
the king heard about them, he laughed a lot.
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