What is the effect of bad intention?

There are a bunch of farmers and they are about to harvest the next morning and it’s going to be a really fruitful harvest. And they want to make sure that they go early in the morning before poor people wake up because the poor people in the village also know its harvest day. So they are going to show up outside the farms and outside the gardens hoping that they can throw some fruits their way, give them some of it and receive some charity. So they make a scheme that they are going to try to get there before any of the poor people show up. And so the language is “Make sure that not a single poor person and a single bankrupt person enters upon you, meaning shows up in your vicinity.” And make sure you speak in a low voice, not to wake anybody up and go in a sneaky way and get back.

Other places, you have people speaking ill or speaking harshly to the poor, right? Or reminding them that you are doing them a favor. But in this ayah (verse) they have not had any interaction with the poor, they haven’t. They weren’t mean to anyone. They didn’t yell at anyone. They simply talked to each other and said “Let’s avoid them.” Let’s just have the intention of not helping them. That’s all. I mean their speech doesn’t really amount to anything more than an intention to not help. That’s it. That’s their crime.

And when they got to the garden there was nothing there. GOD sent a heavenly punishment to their garden. Where when they got there, they actually said we don’t even recognized, “Did we come to the right place?” “This can’t be the place.” Wait … this is our place? How were we made bankrupt?

You may not have done – these people haven’t done an evil deed yet. They have just stated the intention to not help. But that intention itself is enough to enrage GOD, when that intention was made with such commitment.

May GOD keep us of those who have a clean heart towards other people and not allow the corruptions inside of our hearts to manifest in things that are going to harm us in this life and harm us in the next.

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