Today is our turn to host him, and we are not able to handle such a burden.

Today is our turn to host him, and we are not able to handle such a burden.” Mary asked her to tell her husband not to worry, since he was kind to her and to her son, and that she would ask her son to invoke Allah on his behalf, and that his invocation would alone be sufficient. Then Mary told Jesus of it, whereupon he said that if he were to do so, there would be some mischief [due to wine drinking].

“It does not matter,” Mary said, “for he has surely been very kind to us.” Then Jesus told his host to have his pots and containers filled with water, then to inform him once they were all full. The man did so, whereupon Jesus invoked his Lord and the water in the pots turned into meat and gravy, while the water in the containers turned into wine[^1]. People had never tasted anything like it before.

When the king came, he and his men ate, and when he drank of that wine, he asked his host where he had obtained it from. When the man told the king where he had obtained it from, the king said to him, “The wine I am served at my palace is brought to me from that land, and it surely does not taste like this one.” The host had to change his story, but the king pressured him to tell him the truth.

Finally, the man gave up and said, “The truth is that there is, at my house, a child who is granted by Allah the answer to any of his pleas, and he is the one who invoked Him to turn the water into wine.” It so happened that that king had a son whom he very much wished to succeed him as monarch, but that son had died only a few days ago. He loved him more than anyone else.

The king said, “A man who invokes Allah to turn water into wine and Allah answers his plea is surely capable of bringing my son back to life.” Jesus was brought to [^1] This incident can be found in the Bible. Some Christians find no harm in wine drinking, basing their argument on Jesus turning water into wine, but little do they consider the fact that Jesus never drank that particular wine at that particular time nor at any other time and we, Muslims, challenge them to prove otherwise.

Prophets of God are not wine drinkers; sinners are. (82) him, and he discussed the matter with him.