Here the air was extremely hot...

Here the air was extremely hot, I kept asking Haadi for water Sometimes he would give me a little, and sometimes none.

He kept saying that the journey was lengthy and our store of water meagre, which we would have to make last until the end." (Hazrat All: "How lengthy is the journey (at the Here tatter) and how meagre our store of provisions (that is, good deeds which would help there.) I asked him why he had taken so little to start with, and he replied, "You did not make yourself capable of taking more.

I asked, "Why did the capability decrease ?" He said, "You are yourself to blame, because you did not drink much of piety then, and so your capacity cannot increase now. The more watchful and pious you had been on earth, the more water you would have had now.

Nothing can be done about it now, Haven't you read the opening verse of 'Soora-e-Mominoon', "Certainly the faithful have succeeded, who used to be fearful in their prayers and abstained from meaningless pastimes?" You neither abstained from such pastimes nor were you fearful in your prayers. Obviously you will now reap what you had sown.

"Whoever has done a grain of good shall see it and, whoever has done a grain of evil shall see it." Then he pointed in a certain direction and asked me what I could see there. Itseemed like white and black and flames all mixed together. But when I looked carefully it was a green garden, with dense trees, full of fruits. Suddenly I realised that they were burning.

Shocked, I turned to Haadi and asked, "What is happening there?" He replied that the garden had been made from the praise and remembrance of God by the faithful, but when these faithful lied or indulged in backbiting, or insulting, the garden went up in flames. That is, their. sins caused the reward of their good deeds to go waste.

Had their faith been strong enough, they would have given more thought and importance to the gardens they had prepared and would not have allowed them to bum by indulging in such acts. (The Holy Prophet once told his companions that whoever says "La ilaha illalah (there is no God but Allah) once, the angels prepare a tree for him in Heaven. They remarked, 'In that case, by now we must be having a garden each'.