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A friend of mine posted the following this evening, and I thought everyone here would enjoy it:
Al-Ghazālī (d. AD 1111), who was one of the most significant figures in the history of Islamic thought, a legendarily brilliant philosophical theologian and legal thinker who spent most of his life in Iran and Iraq but also sojourned for a significant period in Jerusalem, is talking about extremely poor students, and, in that context, attributes the following remark to Jesus:
Quote:“Even though I managed to raise the dead, I have never been able to cure an idiot!”
(See al-Ghazālī, “O Son!,” trans. David C. Reisman, in Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought, ed. Bradley J. Cook [Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2010], 103.)
Too bad al-Ghazālī was probably wrong. We could add it to the Quote of the Day thread if it was true.
It is funny but to me it doesn’t sound at all like Jesus. Yup. I wish he had said it, but it still is true in spirit, methinks. 
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