· The Lost Key · A Story of Mulla Nasrudin ·

«A man is walking home late one night when he sees an anxious Mulla Nasrudin down on all fours, crawling on his hands and knees on the road, searching frantically under a street light for something on the ground.

“Mulla, what have you lost?”, the passer-by asks.

“I am searching for the key to my house”, Nasrudin says worriedly.

"I'll help you search for your key", the man says and joins Mulla Nasrudin in the search.

Soon both men are down on their knees under the streetlight, looking for the lost key.

After some time, the man asks Nasrudin, 
“Tell me Mulla, do you remember where exactly did you drop the key?”

Nasrudin waves his arm back toward the darkness and says, 
“Over there, in my house. I lost the key inside my house…”

Shocked and exasperated, the passer-by jumps up and shouts at Mulla Nasrudin, 
“Then why are you searching for the key out here in the street?”

“Because there is more light here than inside my house”,

Mulla Nasrudin answers nonchalantly.»