hiçlik makamı

• hocayla ilgili bu muzzam fikranin cevirisi ise su sekildedir.
  
  it is asked to hodja nasreddin: “who you are?”
  hodja replied: “nothing”.
  when his interlocutor wore a purse-lipped expression, hodja asked: “so, who you are?”
  interlocutor said “posessor” with a full of proud, and hodja continued asking “then what?”.
  interlocutor replied: “who knows? maybe a governer”
  when hodja kept on asking “then what?”, interlocutor replied “vizier” and “grand vizier” respectively.
  hodja repeated his question. this time interlocutor could not think a higher position and replied “nothing”.
  hodja said: "you see! i am in a position which you will occupy years after”.