Tara

28 Knowledge

1	A Lord called in a Servant and commanded to him: Go to my storehouse and seed all my fields.
2	The Servant gave his oath and went to the storehouse and began seeding the fields, except one.
3	The field that he did not sow had poor and rocky ground. So he decided to keep that grain for himself.
4	But upon the winter, the grain which the Servant had kept for himself also became food for vermin,
5	Whereupon the coming of spring there was a great plague of mice and the crops of all the fields were ruined.
6	The Lord summonsed his Servant to give account, whereupon he threw himself down and said:
7	Forgive me Lord! For I disobeyed your commands. I did not sow all the seed, but kept some for myself as profit.
8	For I did not see how such seed could take hold upon rocky and poor soil.
9	To which the Lord did reply thus: Oh vile and wicked Servant! I did not ask you to judge. Nor did I ask you to reap.
10	For any grain that did land on sandy and poor soil be food for the birds in winter, that they may have young and in spring may gobble up any vermin.
11	Yet by obstructing my word, you gave rise to the evil that defiled my crops and now I will have to wait another season.
12	Thus, let no messenger defy or interpret Divine Revelation, but be a sower of the seeds of knowledge to all men.