Islam As it Is

man, know theyself! ~ 32 ~ neither the smallest nor the gravest of matters?” (Quran). A LAST WORD Just take a few minutes to think over everything I have explained. Consider that you are destined for an extremely long and unbroken lifespan. And make no mistake about the meaning of death. Death is by no means the end of this life. It marks the beginning of a new era. It is simply the dividing point between the two stages in our life. Think of the farmer who invests his capital in a crop, who sedulously cultivates it until it ripens, then harvests it and stores it for his year’s requirements. Harvesting is the end of just one phase in the crop’s development. Before that, it had been all toil and expense for the farmer. It is only after that point that he enjoys the fruits of his efforts. Such is the case with our life in this world too. Here we invest in and cultivate our after-world crop. Each one of us owns a field which is either cultivated or allowed to lie fallow. We use seeds which give us either a high or a low yield. After sowing our crop, we either attend to it properly or neglect it. We grow thorns