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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Words of the Word of God: Jesus Christ (a) Speaks Through Shii Narrations References Ibn al 'Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom (Fusus al-hikam). tr. R. W. J. Austin (Lahore: Suhail, 1988), p.177. Frithjof Shuon, Islam and the Perennial Philosophy (Lahore: Suhail, 1985). Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Jesus in the Eyes of the Sufis (London: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi Publications, 1983).
We are reminded by the Glorious Qur'an: “O Jesus, I will take you away and lift you up to me...” (3:54) Cf Matt. 23:25. Cf Matt 6.25-34: [^25]: Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? [^26]: look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or Store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feed~ them.
Are you not much more valuable than they? [^27]: Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? [^28]: And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. [^29]: Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of [^30]: If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
[^31]: So do not worry, saying, 'what shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' [^32]: For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things ““ill be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
(NIV) This is perhaps one of the most widely misunderstood of the sayings of Jesus ('a). For it does not seem to he intended in the general ascribed to it, for that would amount to encouraging aggression, oppression and wrong doing. Turning the other cheek can however be an effective way of putting to shame the other side. An episode related by Muhammad Husayn Azad about Imam Bakhsh Nasikh, one of the masters of Urdu poetry, suggests how it can be used as an effective deterrent.
Once someone had sent as a present some spoons made of crystal glass for the poet. These were considered a novelty in those days, and were quite beautiful. One day a young man belonging to some noble family came to visit Nasikh.