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The Child Jesus
In 4 B. C , when Jesus was three of four years old ; Herod died. And so ,the immediate danger to the life of Jesus was removed and he could move freely. It appears that he was educated under the hard discipline of the Essence teachers and , being an intelligent pupil, he learned Torah very quickly . When he was twelve years old, he was sent to the temple and it was found that the student, instead of repeating his lessons , was speaking with a certain confidence and authority . there are several Muslim traditions which tell of the singular gifts which Jesus was given so early in his life, the following is from Thalabi's stories of the Propehts :
Twelve years old
Wahb said : " The first sign which the people saw from Jesus was that his mother was living in the house of a village headman in the land of Egypt. to which Joseph, the carpenter, had brought her when he went with her to Egypt ; and he poor used to repair to that headman's house. Some money belonging to that headman was stolen from his treasury. but he did not suspect the poor, and the Mary was grieved over the affliction of that headman. When Jesus saw his mother's grief over her host's affliction. he said to her ' Mother , do you want me to guide him to his money ?'. She replied, 'Yes , my son'. He said, ' Tell him to gather the poor for e in his house'. So Mary said that to the headman and he gathered the poor for him. When they had collected, he went to two of them, one of whom was blind and the other lame, and lifted the lame man onto the blind man's shoulders, and said to him, 'Raise up with him'. The blind man replied, ' I am too weak for that'. Jesus said to him, ' How were you strong enough for it yesterday ?'. When they heard him saying that, they beat the blind man till he arose, and when he stood up , the lame man reached to the window of the treasury. Then Jesus said to the headman , 'Thus they schemed against your properly yesterday, because the blind man sought the help of his strength and the lame man of his eyes' .Then the blind man the lame man said, 'He has spoken the truth ,by God! '.and restored all his money to the headman. He took it and put it in his treasury and said/ ' O Mary , take half of it' .She replied, ' I was not created for that'. The headman said 'Then give it to your son' .She replied , 'He is great in rank than I ' ....... And at that time he was twelve years old.
In the school :
As Sadi said : When Jesus ,peace be upon him, was in the school , he used to tell the boys what their fathers were doing, and he would say to a boy, ' Go home , for your people have been eating such and such and have prepared such and such for you and they are eating such and such '. So the boy would go home to his people and would cry until they gave him that thing. Then they would say to him, ' Who told you about this?' and he would say, 'Jesus'. So they gathered them in a house and Jesus came looking for them. Then they said. 'there are not here'. He said to them, ' Then what is in this house? '. They replied , 'Swine'. He said 'Let them be swine'. so when they opened the door for them. lo! they were swine'. The Children of Israel were troubled about Jesus, so when his mother was afraid concerning him, she put him ;on an ass of hers and went in flight to Egypt .......
Drying Miracle
At'a said : when Mary had taken Jesus from the school, she handed over him over to various trades, and the last to which she entrusted him was to the dyers ; so she handed him over to their chief that he might learn from him. Now the man had various clothes with him, and he had to go on a journey, so he said to Jesus, 'You have learn this trade, and I am going on a journey from which I shall not return for tem days. The clothes are different colours , and I have marked every one of them with the colour with which it is to be dyed. So I want you to be finished with them when I return' .Then he went out. Jesus (peace be upon him) prepared one receptacle with one colour and put all the clothes in it and said to them ," Be , by God's permission according to what is expected of you". Then the dryer came, and all the clothes were in one receptacle, so he said, " O Jesus , what have you done" .He replied ,' I have finished them'. He said " where are they ?". He replied , ' In the receptacle'. He said 'All of them? ". He replied 'Yes'. . He said ," How are they all in one receptacle ? You have spoiled those clothes" .He replied. ' Rise and look'. So he arose , and Jesus took out a yellow garment and a green garment and a red garment until he had taken them out according to the colours which he desired. Then the dyer , began to wonder, and he knew that that was from God, Great and Gracious is He. Then the dyer said to the people, " 'Come and look at what Jesus (peace be upon him), had done". So he and his companions, and they were the disciples , believed in him, and God, Great and Glorious is He. Knows the best.
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