GOD’S TREE
A
tree is but a manifestation of a seed’s potential to derive sustenance from
earth and water, and produce one of the most beautiful sights in the world in
the form of a trunk, branches, leaves and flowers.
Man
is much the same as a tree. He has
been put on earth like a seed. But he can only grow into a tree by virtue of his
own efforts. Providence, however, has granted him innumerable sources of
nourishment and opportunities exist on earth for man to build an eternal future
for himself.
But
those who do not partake of this divine sustenance are like seeds which are cast
on to a rock or on barren land. Such seeds will never grow into trees. One who
does not make use of the opportunities for growth in this world is like a
defective seed which never grows into a tree. Such a person will meet with
eternal failure. The world which he will inherit in the next life will be total
desert.
A Momin is like a fine tree which grows in this world and is then
transplanted in God’s evergreen garden in the after life.
Do
you not see how Allah makes a metaphor of a good word: a good tree whose roots
are firm and whose branches are in heaven? (14:24)
The
metaphor of a corrupt word is that of a rotten tree, uprooted on the surface of
the earth. It has no staying-power. (14:26)
(Al-Quran)