One day some people asked a Bektashi baba,
“Why doesn’t our dear baba keep the Ramazan fast?”

The Baba replied, “By Allah I would, but my condition doesn’t allow it.”
One of the men asked, “If someone who was fasting invited you to an iftar would you go?”

“Ah! Without doubt!” responded the baba.

Another in the group exclaimed, “My God! You don’t follow any of Allah’s regulations yourself yet you are so eager to accept an invitation to eat from one of Allah’s obedient servants?”

The baba countered, “Why do you reprimand me? You all know that Allah is the Most Merciful of the merciful. He forgives with ease all those who spurn His call. But are the human beings like that? For the least of reasons, they are insulted and dishonoured. Because of that it’s necessary to accept their
invitations immediately!”

thx slush, how interesting 2 read this in English, hehehe

[One day the Sunni friends of a Bektashi dervish insisted that he go to the mosque to pray the Friday prayer. As he took his seat in the congregation the hodja spotted him.

Wanting to embarrass the dervish, the hodja began to lecture on the evils of alcohol.

He began describing in detail all of the natural and religious reasons why drinking any alcohol at all is bad. To prove a point that even animals won’t drink liquor the hodja asks “If you put a bucket of water and a bucket of raki in front of a donkey, which will it drink?”

Someone in the crowd answered, “The water of course.”

“Why so?” enquired the hodja.

Unable to hold himself, the Bektashi exclaimed “Why so? Because it’s a donkey!”

Slush, with your permission let me add some more jokes.

According to the popular Muslim belief, when one fell sick, one called upon the prayers and the good wishes of those considered god-fearing and pious.

In a despaired state, a man whose son was very sick called on a nearby Bektashi Baba; he asked the Baba to come to recite prayers in order that his boy be cured.

The Baba, who cannot get out of this duty, accepted the plea and soon arrived at the door of the townsman. Standing near the child, he opened his hands towards the sky and prayed, “My God, make it so that this boy dies immediately.”

The horrified father grabbed the Baba and threw him out of the house.

Many days later the man came across the Baba on the street and said, “Do you remember when you came to recite prayers for my son and, contrary to what I asked of you, you asked God to take his life? Well God did not listen to you and, El-Hamdulillah, my son is cured!”

The Bektashi started to laugh and responded, “It’s for that reason that I cursed the lad. I have been on bad terms with God lately and He has been giving me the opposite of what I ask for!”

* * *

A hodja was arguing with a Bektashi dervish one day, and he asked, “How many are the pillars of Islam?”

The Bektashi answered, “There’s only one!”

The hodja replied angrily, “Hah! You don't even know the pillars of Islam and still you brag you're a dervish!”

“Hold on! Let me explain hodja,” replied the Bektashi. “You see, I’ve noticed that all you Sunnis don't go on the Hajj and all of you don't pay the Zakat. Well, not all of us Bektashis fast in Ramazan and most of us don’t even pray Namaz. Between the both of us, what’s left of the five pillars except the Shahadah?”

* * *

A Bektashi dervish and a hodja set out on the road together. Evening came and they found themselves in the middle of nowhere. They decided to tie their donkeys to a nearby tree and then climb up it to sleep the night in safety. Before the climbed the tree the hodja prayed, “O Allah! Please protect this donkey of mine which you made.”

Not wanting to be out done, the dervish prayed, “O my shaykh! Please protect this donkey that you let me borrow for this trip.” The hodja was infuriated by this. “What is this?” he scowled. “You ask your shaykh to protect your donkey? Surely this is paganism! Ask Allah to protect it you reprobate! Don’t you know that everything belongs to Allah?” The dervish just shrugged his shoulders and they both climbed the tree and slept.

The next morning they awoke. Climbing down the tree they found that the hodja’s donkey had been half eaten by wolves while the Bektashi’s donkey was still in one piece and very much alive.

“I don’t understand this,” said the hodja scratching his head. “How is it that Allah let my donkey be eaten by wolves yet this dervish’s is unscathed?”

“What’s so hard to understand hodja efendi?,” interjected the dervish. “Allah simply took His donkey from one of His creatures and gave it to one of His other creatures. However my shaykh only has this one donkey, so he had to look after it!”

* * *

There was once a Bektashi who was short and quite homely. The sultan of the time was Mehmet IV who had a great passion for hunting, so much so that history remembers him as Mehmet the Hunter. He spent his time chasing rabbits and other game. Early one morning, this Bektashi passed in front of the palace right as the sultan and his party was leaving for the hunt. His warriors, his horses, his servants, and a great number of knights all passed in front of the unsightly Bektashi’s eyes. By chance the sultan came
back empty handed later that day. It was, in fact, the first time that the sultan had ever returned from the hunt without quarry. Furious he tried to understand the reason for this failure. At long last one of his viziers remembered the unsightly Bektashi who stood at the entrance of the palace that morning. He called to the sultan, “Your Majesty, do you remember that vagabond who stood and watched our hunting party leave the palace this morning? Perhaps he is a cursed man and his gaze put a hex on our hunting.” Convinced of this, the sultan sent his men to arrest the Bektashi. After a while the dervish was brought before the sultan. They explained to him the reason for his presence in the palace and then they condemned him to death, saying that he was a cursed man.

Upon hearing this dreadful news Bektashi threw his a glance on the sultan and said “Tell me your majesty, who is the more cursed of us two? My glance cost you the heads of some rabbits while your glance is costing me my head!” The sultan was so taken by this answer that he let the man go.

* * *

One day, a Bektashi decided to go to the mosque. Not having found a place to attach its donkey or somebody with whom he could entrust it, he left it in front of the mosque saying: “My God I entrust my donkey to You.” When he came out of the mosque, he could not find his donkey.

“Alright!” he shouted, “who just prayed for a donkey? Cause Allah gave him mine!”

* * *

One day a peasant and a Bektashi baba were sitting on a wall. “Why isn't our earth very level?” asked the man. “There are hills and valleys, mountains and fertile plains, and boulders that block our way. In certain places it snows, in others it’s dry; and still other places are covered with jungles.”

The baba answered, “What do you expect for six days work?”

* * *

A Bektashi was in a mosque one day listening to the hodja give a sermon. He was half asleep when the hodja began talking about the pure virgins that awaited the faithful in heaven.

When he heard the word heaven, the Bektashi came to himself and asked the hodja excitedly
" Hodja efendi will wine and raki be served to the faithful in heaven?"

The hodja became furious and shouted back,
" You pagan, what do you think heaven is... a tavern?!"

The Bektashi replied likewise,
" Hah! What do you think heaven is... a whorehouse?!"

This is where I got them from; http://www.bektashi.net/beliefs-jokes1.html

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