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sowing our crop, we have either attended to it
or neglected it. Either we have cultivated thorns,
or else flowers and fruits have blossomed in
our garden.We have either expended our energies
on the improvement of our crop, or we have
wasted our time in unnecessary and irrelevant
occupations. The period of preparation of this
crop lasts until death. The day of our death is
harvest-day. When our eyes close on this world,
they will open on the afterlife, and there, the
crop that we have been busy cultivating all our
lives will appear before us.
Remember that the person who does the
farming is the one who does the harvesting, and
he will reap only the crop that he has sown.
Likewise in the afterworld, everybody will reap
the harvest he had prepared for himself prior to
his death. Every farmer knows full well that he
will take as much grain to the granary as he has
grown, and that the crop can never be other
than the one he has sowed. Likewise, in the
afterworld, man will be recompensed according
