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Sayings of Esa (A.S)

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From .. The Muslim Jesus : Tarif Khalidi

296 Jesus said, "There is no graver disease of the heart than cruelty and there is nothing more unbearable to the soul than lack of hunger. These two act as bridles of banishment and abandonment.

Mulla Muhammed Baqir Majlisi (d. 1110/1698 ), Bihar, 66:387. Cf. Qa'im and Legenhausen, Al-tawhid, 13/3, p. 39, no. 54

A complex saying whose meaning is not entirely clear. Jesus appears to be preaching against both hardness of the heart and a luxurious lifestyle. By means of these two sins, God " reins in " the sinner banishing him from His presence or else abandoning him to his sins.

297 Jesus sent forth two of his companions on an errand. One of them returned looking like a withered water-skin, while the other returned fleshy and fat. Jesus asked the first man, "What was it that reduced you to this state? The man said, "Fear of God", He then asked the second man, "What was it that brought you to this state?" The man replied, "Trust in God."

Mulla Muhammed Baqir Majlisi (d. 1110/1698 ), Bihar, 70:400. Cf. Qa'im and Legenhausen, Al-tawhid, 13/3, p. 34, no. 38

Both fear of God and trust in him are desirable moral attributes, and the two disciples enact what are in effect complementary states of sincere faith, especially as taught in the Sufi ethic.

302 Jeus was asked, "Why do you not build yourself a house?" he answered, " I build in the path of the flood."

Murtada al-Husayni al-Zabidi (d. 1205/1791) Ithaf al-sada al Muttaqin 9:333
(Mansur no 259)

303 "How many people exhort others to remember God but themselves forget Him! how many people frighten others with God but themselves are insolent towards Him! How many people call others to God but themselves run away from Him! How many people recite the Book of God but themselves cast away in verses!"

Murtada al-Husayni al-Zabidi (d. 1205/1791) excerpted in Ghazali, Ihya, 1:51, where this saying is attributed to the ascetic Ibn al- Sammak. I was unable to trace the attribution to Jesus