The Glorious Qurän, through this beautiful parable explains the nature and the perspective of our present life in this world, in order to take away the cover of vanity and neglect from our eyes.

      The water is sent down from the sky through the clouds in drops of rain, and is mingled with the soil and the radiated power of the sun, serving to make our farmland pregnant and fruitful by God's wonderful artistry. Then all sorts of grain, vegetable, and fruit, useful to the creatures are produced. Our land, our farms, and our orchards and gardens are decked out in beauty. The poor ignorant farmer or the land lord, may take all the credits to himself and to their shovel, and may boast for having power of disposal over all the productions!

      But at once a calamity may comeِthe sky may with hold its rain, and then thirst destroy all the plants and trees. Everything may die for want of water, heat or light, or even for having these elements more than they are needed! Even some disease may strip the trees bare, or a frost or volcanic eruption may ruin every life and beauty, leaving behind some ugly dusts and ashes!

      This is indeed the likeness of our physical life in this lower worldِa life that only a microbe is enough to destroy it and to waste all hopes and desires, turning us to a handful of dust.