DOUBLE
CONSEQUENCES
Taken
from the discourses of...
Moulana Abrarul Haq Saheb RA
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Every good and evil act has two consequences, immediate
and delayed. If a person works for a company and fulfills
his task assiduously, at the end of the month he receives
his pay which is immediate reward and after a few years,
on retiring, he receives a pension which is a delayed reward.
All these years of service have added to his pension.
Another
person works for a company but on pay day, he was caught
accepting a bribe. Immediately he will be disgraced and
humiliated and later on, he will be sent to jail for a few
months.
Similarly, a good deed done today has two rewards and an
evil deed done has two punishments.
The provision of electricity is such that by simply getting
connected we benefit from it in various ways. On hot days
we switch on the air-conditioner and on cold days we use
heaters. Similarly, we use fridges, lights, stoves, water
coolers etc. Now, what would happen, when one day all of
a sudden the electricity is cut off? After enquiries with
the council, we are told that the previous bill was not
settled. So when the councils of the world apply this principle,
then Allâh too applies the same principle - no cash, no
delivery.
We desire our children to be obedient to us, but how obedient
are we (the subjects of Allâh) to Allâh. Hence, together
with inward commitment to Allâh, outward commitment should
also be given its importance. If a shopkeeper has all his
goods in the store (behind closed doors) but he does not
lock the store, then his goods are in danger of being stolen.
This shows that external and internal commitment is necessary.
Sinning
causes difficulty for a person even in this worldly life.
It has been reported in the Hadith that sinning causes a
decrease in one’s sustenance - "Verily a man makes
forbidden upon him the sustenance (that was written for
him) due to the sins which he commits" [Sunan ibn Majah].
Similarly, the heart is filled with restlessness and worries
and a person feels distanced from Allâh, and he has adverse
feelings towards pious people and their gatherings. Similarly,
good deeds have the direct opposite effects. For a more
detailed discussion, the book ‘Jazâul A’mal’ by Ml. Ashraf
Ali Thanwi Rahimahullah should be studied.
Once after delivering a lecture somewhere, a person asked
me why his sustenance was always constrained whereas he
was reading the four Wazâif (daily supplications) prescribed
by a pious person for increase in sustenance. I asked him,
"Is it perhaps not due to the fact that you may be
doing eight such acts which result in decrease of sustenance?"
If it is so, then while four deeds are inviting sustenance
eight are repelling it and the consequence is logical.