بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Plant fruit-bearing trees
At the dawn of creation, when Allah created mankind, He decided to give each and everyone of us a small piece of arable land for cultivation. We could grow all kinds of crops in it to feed ourselves as well as feed others. He also sent many people to guide us on how to best cultivate crops, and what to do with the produce.
Eventually, mankind understood that they needed to plant some fruit bearing trees, and although the trees might not bear immediate fruit, if we persevered and took good care of the trees, one day they would bear fruit. Lots of fruit. And this fruit could be consumed by us, or shared with our friends and neighbors, and shared with those who did not have anything to eat so that they could eat to their heart's content.
Most people would plant good quality fruit bearing trees, and tasty, sweet fruit was in abundant supply. And it was all good.
Then one day, a few of us had this idea. Instead of putting all our energy into planting trees, why don't spend time and energy to encourage others to plant trees. This will be better use of our time, since we would now be responsible for the plantation of many more trees, rather than just a few trees that would fit our land. So we became good at motivating others. Also, we developed infographics, memes, videos, and step-wise instructions on how to grow good trees. Which ones are the best trees to grow? Which ones are the best fruits? We started arguing over whose farming methods are the best? And why other peoples methods won't bear fruit. We started having a great number of followers who used to listen to us.
But instead of listening to us and planting trees, our followers really liked our techniques of motivation, and representation of information, so they ended up sharing this information with others. And spent most of their time sharing with others on how to plant good trees. They figured, if it works for us, it will work for them. And so more and more people became busy in talking about agriculture, and less and less people actually planted trees.
So it happened that one day it was discovered that there was severe shortage of fruit in the market, and those who previously would not go hungry, also had to go hungry. However, techniques on growing trees, and highly detailed agricultural nuances and differences were in abundance. Alas, that day we discovered that we cannot eat infographics, articles or videos. If only we had spent our time growing fruit instead...
