You have no alternative but to live as long as you remain.

You have no alternative but to live as long as you remain.’ Then I stood up with my small shovel.”[^16] 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 are enough for us.”[^17] It is reported that Abu ‘Abdullah [Imam Al-Sadiq] said, “Jesus the son of Mary (‘a) sent two of his companions on an errand. Then one of them returned thin and afflicted and the other like iron and fat.

He said to the one who was thin, ‘What did this to you, that I see you this way?’ He said, ‘The fear of Allah.’ And he said to the other who was fat, ‘What did this to you, that I see you this way?’ He said, ‘A good opinion of Allah.’”[^18] Jesus (‘a) said to his companions, “Accord great regard for the thing which is not eaten by…