Retribution

This means the reward process of action (usually) the punishment for sin. Equality, reward for doing, benefit, revenge, recompense, fine, punishment, compensation, etc.

Retribution means revenge for the action, the action we do and the reward we get. The retribution is the law of nature. It is irrevocable, unchangeable and uniformly applicable. Whatever the circumstances, the laws of nature give their results without exception. According to the law of nature, every action must have a reaction, but what will be its form? What will be the reaction time? What will be the nature? Nature chooses it according to its will.

Human history is replete with retributions. Whatever one sows, one has to reap. Allah Almighty has never handed over His world to the power of evil nor to the rejected Satan.

Man will be rewarded for everything he does in this world. Just as good is rewarded, so is evil. If we hurt someone's heart today, our heart will surely be hurt tomorrow. If we kill someone's right today, we will not get our right tomorrow. If you deceive someone today, you will deceive yourself tomorrow.

بچا کوئی مکافات عمل سے؟

وہی کاٹے گا جو بوتا  رہا ہے!

No one is beyond retribution

You will reap what you had sowed.

When a person does bad things to someone and a bad time comes upon him, then the person should sit down and think why this is happening to me. If no answer is found, knowing the truth, you can't admit that it's a retribution. So understand that right now the conscience is in a dream of negligence.

Allah Almighty has endowed every human being with the ability to warn him when he is doing something bad. The nafs lwama (the good inner feeling) definitely warns him.  But it is a different matter that man forgets this voice of truth and does not pay attention to it.  The evil of bad times must be feared and before doing anything in this mortal world, one must first think about the retribution.

The great tragedy of today is that most of us are so caught up in the clutches of our Concupiscence.  We consider it our primary duty to do everything that benefits us, even if it is immoral and inevitably harms others.  We forget that Allah Almighty has placed a judge inside us who cannot be bought or bowed down. The judge's job is to warn us in a timely manner.  That judge warns you that what you are doing is wrong and you will be called by nature and will be brought to justice, and prove what you did wrong and get an immediate decision. It never takes long for a criminal to be punished.

Allah Almighty says in Quran:-

تِلْكَ اُمَّةٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ ۖ لَـهَـا مَا كَسَبَتْ وَلَكُمْ مَّا كَسَبْتُـمْ ۖ وَلَا تُسْاَلُوْنَ عَمَّا كَانُـوْا يَعْمَلُوْنَ

It was a community that has passed away. They have their deeds and you have your deeds, and you will not be asked about their deeds. (Surat al-Baqara, verse 141)

Man keeps entertaining himself, suffers from complacency and keeps reassuring himself that everything is fine. But there is anxiety and turmoil inside him. And then one day he is treated the same way he treats someone else. Then somewhere he realizes he did wrong.

مکافات عمل ہونا اٹل ہے صاحب

دیر سویر ہوسکتی ہے پر ٹل نہیں سکتا

Retributions are inevitable, Sir

It may be late, but it can't be avoided

I was promoted once and it was on merit. I took charge of the new job and reorganized the department. Three months later I had to go to Makkah for I'tikaf. I took leave and completed I'tikaf. And after Eid, when I came on duty, I received a letter saying that you did a good job well and wrote this with thanks. Now you are back to your old job.

I was very sad and sorry about what happened. Upon my investigation, it was found out that the gentleman whom I had recommended and put in my place to work temporarily, he conspired with a third Pakistani who took that position from me, and he himself took the position of the third person. For this conspiracy both have jointly played the dirty tricks to achieve their target.  

I expected an increase of one thousand riyals in the new position. But with the conspiracy of two people, I had to vacate that position. I was upset but I did not mind and put this matter to Allah. 

And then what Allah did was that another new position was immediately opened and I was also selected for that position. And thank God I got an increase of 1400 riyals in the new position. It is true that by relying on Allah, man is not at a loss and those who violate the rights of others have to answer. They are ashamed before God and ashamed before their conscience.

ازل سے ہے مکافات عمل

کا سلسلہ قائم

رولایا جس نے اوروں کو

وہ خود بھی چشم تر ہوگا۔۔۔۔

From time immemorial, the retribution

Is Set up

Who cried the others

He himself will be in tears

This incident shows that people who deliberately violate someone's rights, commit mistakes and commit sins and deceit, blacken their hearts. There is a devil inside them who makes every decision in their favor and they proudly raise their heads and say that we are doing the right thing. Not only that, they will accuse you, they will attack you that you are wrong. Such people get hurt only once which injures their soul from within. When they look inside, they realize. By then it is too late. It is true that the past cannot be reversed and nothing can be done except regret.

کسی کا دل دکھانے کے بعد بہتر  ہوگا

کہ آپ اپنی باری کا انتظار کریں!!

After hurting some’s heart,

It is better for you to wait for your turn!!

This world is a rewarding process, here every person has to give an account of his deeds, every lie, every deception, every seduction, every affliction, every torment that he inflicts on anyone, he has to suffer on his own. Every wrong intention, thought, action has to be accounted for.

We must remember that we came into this world and have to go back one day.

ہم نے اس مزرع ہستی میں کیے ہیں جو عمل

ایک دن کھینچیں گے سر ان کی مکافات کے بیج

What we have delivered our deeds in this life

One day that deeds will reap as a result of a retribution.

The retribution is very slow but the grinding is very fine.

Abdul Qayum Khan Ghouri - Lahore Pakistan