Mulla Nasrudin was visited by friend excited to speak with him. “I’m getting get married, Mulla,” his friend said, “and I’m very excited! Mulla, have you ever thought of marriage yourself?”
Nasrudin replied, “I did think of getting married. In my youth in fact I very much wanted to do so. I waited to find for myself the perfect wife. I traveled looking for her, first to Damascus. There I met a beautiful woman who was gracious, kind, and deeply spiritual, but she had no worldly knowledge.
I traveled further and went to Isphahan. There I met a woman who as both spiritual and worldly, beautiful in many ways, but we did not communicate well. Finally, I went to Cairo and there after much searching I found her. She was spiritually deep, graceful, and beautiful in every respect, at home in the world, and at home in the realms beyond it. I felt I had found the perfect wife.”
His friend questioned further, “Then why did you not marry her, Mulla?” “Alas,” said Nasrudin, shaking his head, “She was, unfortunately, waiting for the perfect husband.”