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 Allah's 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.
آنگاه به دنبال آنان پيامبران خود را، پى‌درپى، آورديم، و عيسى پسر مريم را در پى [آنان‌] آورديم و به او انجيل عطا كرديم، و در دلهاى كسانى كه از او پيروى كردند رأفت و رحمت نهاديم و [اما] ترك دنيايى كه از پيش خود درآوردند ما آن را بر ايشان مقرّر نكرديم مگر براى آنكه كسب خشنودى خدا كنند، با اين حال آن را چنانكه حقّ رعايت آن بود منظور نداشتند. پس پاداش كسانى از ايشان را كه ايمان آورده بودند بدانها داديم و[لى‌] بسيارى از آنان دستخوش انحرافند.