The Tree
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Malaysia’s most influential spiritual leader Nik Aziz offers commentary on the virtuous and Islamic way to conduct ethical commerce in his inimitable style.
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To quote the Prophet Muhammad:
When a Muslim plants something, whether it’s a short tree or a mighty tree,
anything that comes from that tree is considered a gift of alms.
Birds that land on its branches will get blessed gift.
The same goes for any wild beast or squirrel that eats its fruit.
People who seek shelter in its shade: they get alms, too.
Alms are an international currency.
To survive today, we need regular national and foreign currency.
We accept this.
But the Afterlife goes beyond all that.
We also need ‘money’ for the Afterlife.
But we don’t call it money or currency.
We call it merit.
So just as we need worldy currency,
We also need merit points.
When we are dead and buried, we have no use for normal currency.
Malaysian money, American money, even gold bullion will be worthless.
We will have only merit points.
One of the ways to earn merit is through agriculture.
Whether it is just a garden plant or full commercial agriculture.
We can plant rubber, oil palm, fruit.
The trees will benefit not only us, but other people and animals nearby.
So we get merit points even without selling anything.
This is one way that Islam motivates us to live by God’s laws.
If we plant to get merit points, we need to till rightful soil.
Don’t use lands that we stole from others.
We must be ethical when it comes to buying things and paying workers.
If you owe your worker RM 10, but you give only RM 5, there’s no merit.
We have to be good in maintaining God’s rules.
Then you can plant as much as you want, even a million acres, God will bless you.
Planting becomes an act of worship.
Worship isn’t just a matter of praying.
Worship actually means humbling yourself before God.
If you go to Mecca without the spirit of humility, if you go for sightseeing and shopping,
that’s not worship.
Worship means being humble when facing God.
A problem that has surfaced in the Muslim world,
caused by the enemies of Islam,
is that people are not living according to God’s laws.