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e you were certainly means that you warmed yourself by it.” “That’s silly,” Mullah Nasruddin argued.“H ow can a candle behind a window warm a person three hundred yards away?” But no matter what he said,the men were not it was decided that Mullah Nasruddin had lost the had to invite all of them to a dinner that night at his home. They all arrived on time,laughing and joking,awaiting the delicious dinner was not Nasruddin told them that it would be ready in a short time,and left the room to prepare the long time passed,and still no dinner was ,getting impatient and very hungry,they went into the kitchen to see if there was any food cooking at they saw,they could not Nasruddin was standing by a huge pot which hung from the was a lighted candle under the pot. “B e patient,my friends,” Mullah Nasruddin told them.“Dinner will be ready see it is cooking.” “Are you out of your mind,Mullah Nasruddin?” they shouted.“How could you with such a tiny flame boil such a large pot?” “If the flame of a candle behind a window three hundred yards aw