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given so much more, more wealth
and children and power and posi-
tion, the most delightful gardens
and each of us the loftiest mansion.
”
Nabi
‘Isa [a] was sad, very sad
indeed. They had disbelieved and
rejected all the clear signs he had
brought as well as the wonderful
miracles. And what was stranger
still is that they knew that he was
true.
They laughed and mocked and
often times at him threw heaps of
filth, and all this because he had no
power, or so they thought, nor a sin-
gle penny of wealth.
And so
Nabi
‘Isa [a] turned to the
poor, whose hearts were tender and
whose souls were pure. They did
not boast nor were they proud, they
were common folk, fishermen and
carpenters, who were never boast-
