gooseberry jokes

When the hodja said that wudu (a ritual washing before prayer) is the foundation of religion, the Bektashi asked how that could be a foundation if it can be destroyed by something as small as a fart. This makes Islam, which is usually thought of as untouchable, more approachable and brings a smile to people's faces.

A Bektashi person would say that whatever happens is from God. One day, a quarry slapped a gooseberry on the back of the neck. When the gooseberry turned around, the Kulhanbeyi asked, "Father, what are you looking at?" The Bektashi person replied, "Thank God. Thank you, son. I know it's from God too, but I was wondering which person did it."

Bektashi was in a lot of debt and he couldn't pay it. He went to the mosque and prayed to God, asking for enough money to pay off his debt. He promised that if God helped him, he wouldn't bother God five times a day like other people and he wouldn't come back to the mosque again.

There was a rumor that Bektaşi went to the mosque and prayed with the congregation. After the prayer was over, he dropped an empty drink container. The other people in the congregation were angry and said, "If you haven't done anything wrong, why are you bringing something that causes sin into the mosque?" Bektaşi replied, "Don't you all have something that causes sin? Do you leave it outside before you come in?"

The people caught the Bektashi while they were eating during Ramadan and asked them why they were fasting. The Bektashi replied that no one should ask questions when someone is hungry, and that they had found something to eat that day, so the people should not be bothering them.