In truth...

In truth, I say unto you, just as an animal which is not captured and tamed becomes hardened and its character is changed, so too when hearts are not softened by the remembrance of death and the effort of worship they become hard and coarse, and in truth, I say unto you, if a skin is not torn, it may become a vessel for honey, just as hearts, if they are not torn by desires, or fouled by greed, or hardened by pleasures, may become vessels for wisdom.” (6) 23.

It was said to Jesus (‘a): [Would it not be better] if you got a house? He said: The remains which are left from those before us is enough for us.” (7) On Wisdom 24. It is reported that Jesus ( ‘a) said: ”O assembly of scholars ( ‘ulama)’. Just as the sovereigns have abandoned wisdom, leaving it to you. So you should abandon sovereignty, leaving it for them.” (8) 25. And it was said to him [Jesus ( a)]: Who trained you? He said: No one trained me.

I saw the ugliness of ignorance and I avoided it.” (9) 26. The apostle of Allah [Muhammad] (s) said: Jesus the son of Mary (‘a) stood up among the Children of Israel and said: ‘O Children of Israel! Do not speak with the ignorant of wisdom, for otherwise you do injustice with it, and do not keep it from its folk, for otherwise you do injustice to them, and do not help the unjust with his injustice, for otherwise, your virtue becomes void.

Affairs are three: the affair whose righteousness is clear to you, so follow it: the affair whose error is clear to you, so avoid it’. and the affair about which there are differences so returns it to Allah, the Almighty and Glorious . (10) 27. Jesus the son of Mary (‘a) said: O assembly of Apostles! I have a request of you. Fulfil it for me. They said: Your request is fulfilled, O Spirit of Allah! Then he stood up and washed their feet.

They said: It would have been more proper for us to have done this, O Spirit of Allah! Then he said: Verily, it is more fitting for one with the knowledge to serve the people. Indeed, I humbled myself only so that you may humble yourselves among the people after me, even as I have humbled myself among you. Then Jesus (‘a) said: Wisdom is developed by humility, not by pride, and likewise plants only grow in soft soil, not in rocks.” (11) 28.

Al-Sayyid ibn Tawus, may Allah have mercy on him, said: I read in the Gospel that Jesus (‘a) said: I tell you, do not worry about what you will eat or what you will drink or with what you will clothe your bodies.