As You Sow, so Shall You Reap.
(Najamuddin Ghanghro, Karachi (original from Larkana))
Only those who have sown crops
can expect a harvest, and what is harvested will be whatever has been sown. The
same is true of the next life: there, all men will reap as they have sown. Those
who are always jealous, inimical, cruel, and conceited are like those who plant
thorn trees. Those who plant thorns will eat thorns in the hereafter. On the
other hand, whoever chooses the path of justice, benevolence and acknowledgement
of the truth is like the planter of fruit trees. In the next life he will enjoy
the sumptuous fruits of his own planting.
People adopt a rebellious stance in this world, yet continue to imagine that
they will be raised up amongst Allah’s obedient servants. They are willfully
destructive, but still think that in eternity they will have a share in the
fruits of constructiveness. Their lives are based on mere words and they believe
that these words will take the form of reality in the hereafter. They hear the
message of Allah and refuse to accept it; even so they have the presumption to
think that Allah will be pleased with them.
Allah beckons man towards His protection, the abode of eternal comfort and
bliss, but man is lost in transitory and illusory pleasures. He does not heed
the call of Allah. He thinks he is gaining while, in fact, he is losing. He
believes that the worldly constructions which he is busy erecting will serve him
well in the future, but he is only building walls of sand which will fall never
to rise again.