Mullah Fatah Ali relates that one of his close friends
related to him that he had several farms. One year
due to bad economic conditions people were suffering
from starvation. This man decided to give the harvest
of one of the farms to the poor. So he went to the
mosque and proclaimed that people could benefit from
this land, provided they were in need, and that they
would not take from the harvest more than that which
was necessary.
The needy went there everyday in great numbers and
benefited. The owner of the farm was so busy with
his work that he didn't follow up closely on the condition
of that piece of land. After he had harvested all
the other pieces of land, he remembered this particular
farm he had given as charity, and ordered his servants
to go and collect any dry grass, plants and seeds
that may have remained.
To the great surprise of the servants, they found
that there still remained a lot of crop which had
not been harvested and consumed. On collecting the
harvest, they all found that the harvest of that piece
of land exceeded that of all the other pieces of land
which the man possessed.
In addition to that, while it was a common practice
to leave a land without planting any crops the following
year so that it could regain the minerals it had lost,
it was found that this piece of land had not lost
it's fertility at all, and it was possible to cultivate
it in the following year. (Al dhunoob al kabira page
197)
"INDEED ALLAH INCREASES FOR WHOMSOEVER HE WISHES".
(BAQARA VERSE 261)