A learned and pious personality narrated that one of his relatives in the final period of his life had purchased a property and was living on its income comfortably.

After his death he was seen in dream that he has lost his eyesight. He was asked how it happened. He replied: The property that I had purchased had a spring of sweet water in its center and people living around took water from there for drinking and also watered their cattle.

Due to their continuous frequenting a part of my crops used to be trampled. In order to avoid this minor loss I thought that I would close this path once and for all. So I filled up the well and plastered it. Now, the people living in that area were compelled to get their water requirements from a well situated at a far location. This blindness is due to the closing of that well.

He was asked: Is there any solution for this? He replied: If my successors have mercy on me and reopen that well, my condition would definitely improve.

The narrator said: I contacted his successors and they accepted the proposal. After some days I saw that late gentleman again and he had regained his vision and was thankful to us.

Man should know that whatever he does is for his own good and if he has oppressed anyone, he has in fact oppressed his own self, if he had done a good turn on anyone he has in fact done a good tum to himself. If he has cut off the head of someone, in the stages of Purgatory (Barzakh), he would himself be decapitated and in Hell, his head would be tethered to his feet.

It is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an that:

بِسِيمَاهُمْ فَيُؤْخَذُ بِالنَّوَاصِي وَالْأَقْدَامِ

"They shall be seized by the forelocks and the feet." (Surah ar-Rahman 55:41)

That is why Lady Zainab Kubra said to that accursed one in the court of Yazid: You have cut off your own skin and have beheaded yourself.