in their wake we sent a succession of our messengers and raised jesus son of mary after all of them and bestowed upon him the evangel and we set tenderness and mercy in the hearts of those that followed him. as for monasticism it is they who invented it we did not prescribe it for them. they themselves invented it in pursuit of allahs good pleasure and then they did not observe it as it ought to have been observed. so we gave their reward to those of them that believed. but many of them are wicked.
ثم قفينا على آثارهم برسلنا وقفينا بعيسى ابن مريم وآتيناه الإنجيل وجعلنا في قلوب الذين اتبعوه رأفة ورحمة ورهبانية ابتدعوها ما كتبناها عليهم إلا ابتغاء رضوان الله فما رعوها حق رعايتها فآتينا الذين آمنوا منهم أجرهم وكثير منهم فاسقون