UDL: "Manhood, Masculinity and The Woman" Part 7a

42: 20. To any that desires the harth of the Hereafter We give increase in his harth; and to any that desires the harth of this world We grant somewhat thereof but he has no share or lot in the Hereafter. [FS NOTE: THE VERY SAME PRINCIPLE IS STATED IN 17:18-22]

Abu Huraira reported:

While a person was in the wilderness he heard a voice from the cloud (commanding it thus): Irrigate the garden of so and so. (After that the clouds slinked aside and poured water on a stony ground. It filled a channel amongst the channels of that land and that person followed that water and he found a person standing in the garden busy in changing the course of water with the help of a hatchet. He said to him: Servant of Allah, what is your name? he said: So and so. And it was that very name which he had heard from the clouds. and he said to him: Servant of Allah, why do you ask me my name? He said: I heard a voice from the clouds of which is the downpour, saying: Water the garden of so and so, like your name. What do you do (for the favour) shown to you by Allah in this matter? He said: Now as you state so. I look what yield I get from it, and I give one-third as charity out of it and I and my children eat one-third of it and one-third I return to it as investment.

Harth- Ha-Ra-Thaa = To till and sow, cultivate, cut a thing, acquire (goods), to collect wealth, seek sustenance, work or labour, plough, to study a thing thoroughly, to examine/look into/scrutinize/investigate, call a thing to mind.

Harth has the meanings; Garden, Gain, acquisition, reward (gain), recompense (gain), seed-produce, what is grown/raised by means of seed/date-stones/planting. A wife or road that is much trodden.