# Jokes from a 1000-year-old Muslim book give advice to gate-crashers

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**Created:** [November 29, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-from-a-1000-year-old-muslim-book-give-advice-to-gate-crashers/642514 "2012-11-29T21:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-from-a-1000-year-old-muslim-book-give-advice-to-gate-crashers/642514/1 "2012-11-29T21:23:02Z")

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[As the book says, “[E]very serious minded person needs to take a break.”](http://news.discovery.com/history/muslim-joke-book-121127.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1)

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> An 11th-century book by a revered [Baghdad](http://islam.about.com/cs/history/a/aa040703a.htm) Muslim scholar turns out to be a tongue-in-cheek guide for party crashers, according to the researcher who translated the book into English.
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> The tome was originally authored by [al-Khatib al-Baghdadi](http://www.sunnah.org/history/Scholars/al_khatib_al_baghdadi.htm), a well known scholar of the Prophet Mohammed’s teachings.

Now, for the jokes:

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> Once a man crashed another man’s party. “Who are you?” the host asked him. “I’m the one who saved you the trouble of sending an invitation!” he replied.
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> A party-crasher walked into a gathering, and they said to him, "Nobody invited you!" "But if you didn't invite me and I didn't come," he replied, "think how lonely that would be!"
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> Once a party-crasher walked in the house of a man who had invited a gathering of people. “Hey, you!” the man said. “Did I say you could come?” “Did you say I couldn’t come?” the party crasher replied.

Heh. Can’t argue with that logic. One more, a longer one:

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> A party-crasher took up with a man while traveling. One day the man said to him, ““Go and buy some meat for us.” “No, by God, I don’t have the means,” said the party-crasher. So the man went and bought the meat. Then he said, “Get up and cook it.” “I’m no good at cooking,” said the party-crasher. So the man cooked the meat. Then he said, “Get up and sop the bread,” and the party-crasher replied, “By God, I feel exhausted.” So the man sopped the bread. Then he said, “Get up and ladle the stew.” “I’m afraid I’ll spill it on my robe,” said the party-crasher, so the man ladled the stew. “Get up and eat,” he said. “By God,” said the party-crasher, “I’ve been feeling bad for refusing you so many times,” and he came forward and ate.