Ali Ataie – What Jesus (PBUH) Thought Of This World

So this is his teaching. Right? In our

tradition,

Isa alaihis salaam,

he is

he's teaching them the deception of this world,

not to be fooled by this world.

So he says, the similitude of this world

is like a man lost at sea.

Right? He's lost. Imagine someone who's lost at

sea on a boat, and he says, he

starts taking handful after handful of seawater into

his mouth.

The more he drinks, the thirstier he gets

and then he dies from it.

This is the nature of the dunya.

He says, the nature of the dunya is

like an old haggard prostitute

who has to,

hide in alleyways,

and she sticks her hand out and it's

bejeweled.

It's got rings and bracelets and so on

and so forth, and she waves men into

the alleyway.

And the men come and then she slaughters

them,

such as the dunya.

And these are hadith in our in our

tradition. He says to his

disciples, he says,

so the disciples come to him and say,

how is it that you can walk on

water? And he said, bring me 3 objects.

And they said what? He said, gold, stones,

and dirt.

And they bring these 3 objects and he

says, put them here. And then he says

to the how are you, the disciples, what

do you say about these things?

And they said, the gold is better than

stones and stones are better than dirt. He

says, they're all the same to me.

If you can understand the secret of that,

you can walk on water. You can break

customary physics.

He was walking with his Hawariyun,

and he was walk like the prophet said,

he would actually walk behind the Sahaba. He

said, leave my back for the Malaika.

Right? So is is walking behind the how

are you? They're walking sort of in a

barren, like, wasteland. And they notice as the

disciples, they stop and they're looking at something,

and they start covering their their mouth like

this and their noses. It's like

this.

And they look and it's a decomposing carcass

of a dog.

Right?

And they say, how revolting. And then Isa

alaihi salami looks at it and he says,

and he walks away.

How white are its teeth?

What does that mean?

It means that Isa alaihi salaam, he saw

the beauty. He managed to find something beautiful

even in this very, very ugly, nasty,

rotting thing.

Like in our tradition, we don't have this

idea of him attacking the Pharisees and things

like that.

Right? Probably something like that

inevitably happened because he would engage in debates.

No doubt.

But in our tradition, we have the Pharisees

walking by him and they start saying something

about him. They start saying something about his

his mother, Mariam alayhi salaam.

And then Isa alayhi salaam, he looks at

them and he just says,

and how are you? And they say, why

didn't you defend yourself?

And he said, a vessel only overflows its

contents.

Right?

It's like, I don't even I because they

were insulting him. You can imagine what they

were saying.

So it's that's not a civil debate.

On a debate, we'll debate, but they're insulting

me. And I don't have that in me.

I can't even do that.

Right?

So this this is the essence of his

teaching.

And unfortunately, the essence of his teaching is

completely corrupted

for for the most part. I should say

completely.