— Imam Ali about the messenger, Jesus Christ, in sermon 160 of Nahjul Balagha:

‘If you desire, I will tell you about Jesus, Son of Mary.

He used a stone for his pillow, put on coarse clothes and ate rough food.

His condiment was hunger. His lamp at night was the moon.

His shade during the winter was nothing but the expanse of the earth eastward and westward.

His fruits and flowers were only what grows from the earth for the cattle.

He had no wife to allure him, nor any son to give grief, nor wealth to deviate his attention, nor greed to disgrace him.

His two feet were his conveyance and his two hands his servant.’

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