It isn’t no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie

there and grunt is. Once upon a time Nasrudin and his

master went hunting in the forest. The master cut his

thumb while shooting his bow and arrow because he held

it incorrectly. Nasrudin stopped the bleeding and

bandaged the deep wound as his master moaned in pain.

In an attempt to console his master, Nasrudin said.

"Sir, there are no mistakes, only lessons, and we can

learn from them if we're willing."



The master became enraged. "How dare you lecture me!"

he barked. And with that he threw Nasrudin into a

deserted well and continued on without his devoted

servant.



A little further on, a group of forest people captured

the master and took him to their chief for human

sacrifice. The fire was roasting hot, and the master

was about to be thrown into it when the chiefnoticed

his bandaged thumb and set him free. It was a rule

that all sacrificial victims had to be perfect

specimens. Realizing how right Nasrudin had been, the

master rushed back to the well to rescue his faithful

servant. Acknowledging his unjust actions, the master

pulled Nasrudin out and asked him to forgive him for

the terrible mistake.



Nasrudin assured him that he had not made a mistake at

all. On the contrary, he insisted that there was

another lesson concealed here. Nasrudin told his

master that he had done Nasrudin a great service by

throwing him into the well. He thanked his master for

saving his life explaining that if he had continued

with him into the forest, the forest people would have

taken him for sacrifice and surely he would had died.



"You see," Nasrudin ventured, "there are no mistakes,

only lessons to learn. What we call our mistakes can

be blessings in disguise, if we're willing to learn

from them." This time the master smiled and nodded in

agreement.