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Thus, The Search.... |
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A farmer asked Nasiruddin whether his olives would bear in that year.
“They will bear,” said the Mullah.
“How do you know?”
“I just know, that is all.”
Later the same man saw Nasiruddin trotting his donkey along the seashore, looking for driftwood.
“There is no wood here, Mullah, I have looked,” he called out. Hours later the same man saw Nasiruddin wending his way home, tired out, still without fuel.
“You are a man of perception, who can tell whether an olive tree will bear or not. Why can’t you tell whether there is wood on the seashore?”
“I know what must be,” said Nasiruddin, “but I do not know what may be.” (Source: http://www.spiritoftrees.org/folktales/howe/nasrudin_trees.html)
Mullah Nasiruddin has conveyed a very deep meaning about his search for wood on the seashore. Because we do not know, what may be the outcome, our journey thus becomes more meaningful. The cover page demonstrates symbolically the search for a whole range of choices about which we don’t know enough. Or if we know it, we know little about the way storm will impact the ship or herbal medicine would behave in real life or other challenges that we face. But we try. Why would search for uncertain solutions be so adventurous when the known solution, in many cases are available? What propels innovators to search for solutions that may defy reason? |
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Honey Bee 19(1) :2, 2008 |
