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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Koran: for his likeness is as the likeness of a flint with soil upon it,
and a heavy shower falls on it and leaves it bare rock; they can do
nought with what they earn, for God guides not the misbelieving folk.
But the likeness of those who expend their wealth craving the
goodwill of God, and as an insurance for their souls, is as the
likeness of a garden on a hill. A heavy shower falls on it, and it
brings forth its eatables twofold; and if no heavy shower falls on it,
the dew does; and God on what ye do doth look.
Would one of you fain have a garden of palms and vines, with
rivers flowing beneath it, in which is every fruit; and when old age
shall reach him, have weak seed, and there fall on it a storm wind
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