It is said that once a man appeared in the court of the king and claimed that if he tied a black bandage over his eyes and threaded a black needle with a black thread five hundred times in a dark room, his target would not miss. The king found this impossible, but the man requested that he be tested. So the man tied a black bandage over his eyes and threaded the black needle with a black thread hundreds of times. The king was very pleased to see this skill of his.
The next day the king summoned him to the court and ordered that the man be given ten thousand as a reward. The man was about to return happily after receiving the reward when the king stopped him and ordered his soldiers to make him lie on the ground and give him ten lashes.
Hearing this, the man wept and muttered, “Your Majesty! You had just rewarded me, now what kind of punishment is this?”
The king replied, “The prize was given to you because you demonstrated an amazing skill, and the lashes will be applied because you wasted so much of your precious life time and effort on a very pointless and useless task.”
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