This prophetic message is also taught by the Prophet Muhammad: “If the Hour of Resurrection comes up, and one of you is holding a sapling, finish planting it”
It is an amazing saying. If the End of Days is upon you, still, finish planting. Go ahead with the act, even if it — and you — will not survive to fruition. Yes, there are days that it seems like the world around us is coming to an end. It may — or it may not. But let us keep planting.
It is not merely the fruit of these collective saplings that will save this world; it is the hope, the faith, and the stubborn clinging to the good of us planters that will save our own soul, and save this small, wounded, beautiful home.
Omid Safi
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