قال: و ما بلغ من عبادتكم الطواغيت؟ قال: كانوا إذا أمرونا...

قال: و ما بلغ من عبادتكم الطواغيت؟ قال: كانوا إذا أمرونا أطعناهم Isa -as asked: ‘And what was the love of the world?’ He said, ‘Like the love of the young for his mother. If she is in front of him he is happy, and if she goes away, he grieves’. Isa -as asked: ‘And what was your worship of the tyrants?’ He said, ‘Whenever they ordered us we obeyed them’.

قال: فكيف أجبتني [أنت‏] من بينهم؟ قال: لأنهم ملجمون بلجم من نار، عليهم ملائكة غلاظ شداد، و إني كنت فيهم و لم أكن منهم، فلما أصابهم العذاب أصابني معهم، فأنا معلق بشجرة أخاف أن أكبكب في النار Isa -as asked; ‘So how did you manage to answer me -as whilst you were in between them?’ He said, ‘Because they have been restrained by reins of Fire. Upon them are stern and severe Angels, and I used to be among them and had never become part of them.

So when they were struck by the Punishment, it engulfed me along with them. I am (now) hanging on to a tree, afraid to be flung into the Fire’. قال: فقال عيسى (عليه السلام) لأصحابه: النوم على المزابل، و أكل خبز الشعير، خير مع سلامة الدين He -asws said: ‘So Isa -as said to his -as companions: ‘Sleeping on the garbage, and eating rye bread is better, along with safety of the Religion’’.

Their brains would boil therein like the boiling of the pots and whatever is in it.