Hold out your hand and imagine one tiny seed sitting in your palm. Just one. So small you could drop it and never find it again. Can anything big come from something so small? Oh, just wait.
A farmer presses that one seed into the soil and covers it with earth. Now it is gone, hidden in the dark. But down there, something amazing begins. The seed cracks open, and a little green shoot starts climbing up, up, up toward the sun.
In the Qur'an, Allah tells us about a very special seed. From one grain grow seven whole ears of grain, like seven full heads of wheat, and inside every single ear there are one hundred grains. Count with me: seven times one hundred... that is seven hundred! One little seed became seven hundred.
But why does Allah tell us this? Because that is what sharing for His sake is like. When you give something for Allah, when you share your money, or your snack, or your helping hands, it is like planting a seed. It looks small when it leaves your hand. But Allah grows it and grows it, into seven hundred, and even more than that, as much as He wants. Allah's treasure never, ever runs out.
Here is something funny about farmers. They never have a party on planting day. They wait and worry: will the rain come? Will the little plants be okay? They only celebrate at harvest time, when the crop finally stands tall and golden in the field.
But when you share for Allah's sake, you can be happy right away, on planting day! Because Allah has already promised the harvest. The moment your little gift leaves your hand, the growing has already begun.
And listen carefully, because this part is just for you: small does not matter to Allah. In the picture Allah gave us, He did not grow a whole farm. He grew one single grain. So if all you have is one coin, or half a cookie, or one kind helping hand, give it happily. The smallness was never a problem. Allah loves to take the littlest seed and grow it the biggest.
Maybe you will share something tomorrow and never see what happens next. That is fine. Seeds grow quietly. Somewhere, some day, maybe even long, long from now, your little seed will be a whole golden field waving in the wind, waiting for you as a beautiful surprise from Allah.
So tonight, before your eyes close, think of one small thing you could share tomorrow. One seed. Then plant it, and let Allah do the growing. He always does.