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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Mercy of Qur'an and the Advent of Zaman - Commentary On Four Suras Supplement 3 63 Have you considered what you sow? 64 Is it you that cause it to grow, or are We the causers of growth?

65 If We pleased, We should have certainly made it broken down into pieces, then would you begin to lament: 66 Surely we are burdened with debt; "Have you considered what you sow?" Man is simply an instru­ment of sowing seeds, whether the seeds are those of other human beings or of plants. He is simply an actor. He has not written the script nor has he any, possibility of changing the laws that govern it. The only degree of freedom he has is that of acting his role perfectly.

When one sees a perfect actor, one believes that he is truly living his role. He has unified his will with destiny. It is an aspect of tawhid; he genuinely and totally becomes one with his part. From Reality's point of view, he is not in separation though he may imagine that he is. If your act is pure and perfect then there is no resistance between your will and what you are applying yourself to, because the application has been for Allah, by Allah and in Allah.

This is baraka (blessing), divine effi­ciency. It is harmony, ecology, balance and sanity. Man is not the cause of events, he is simply one string of an instru­ment in an orchestra. Man can move because there is life in him. He did not cause life to come to him; he is only a conduit.

If one is genuinely dependent on the knowledge that Allah is the best of guardians, then one truly knows that there is no power or strength except by Allah (la hawla wa la quwata illa billah), that Entity from Whom there has been no separation. If Allah wills, the actions man may feel proud of may be de­stroyed. It is in man's nature that he will, with audacity and arro­gance, explain as superficial causes what are actually and simply the will of Allah. 67 Nay! we are deprived.

The Qur'an carries the reader to the present, into the next life and into what preceded life. It is the unifier by a thread that goes back and forth in time. "Surely, we are burdened with debt." Gharama is to pay a fine. In physical existence man has fed himself from the wrong source and is now being penalized. The noun gharam means in­fatuation.

When the final event occurs, at which time there is no pos­sibility of arrogance or of duplicity, man is completely in a state of obsession and infatuation.