Spiritual Stories for Children: Do not Do Evil toanyoneWhat Goes Around Comes Around

There was a man in Isfahan who used to beathis wife but unfortunately
she succumbed to his beatingthough he had not intended to kill her.
But when she was dead he became fearful of her relatives. In a state
of anxiety he came out of his house and met an acquaintance to whom he
posed his problem.
The friend told him to invite a young man to hishouse and behead him
and put the severed headnext to the wife's corpse. Then he would tell
the wife's relatives that he had found them togetherin bed and was
unable tocontrol his ire, and slew them both. The man likedthe idea
and sat at the doorway in anticipation of a young man. After sometime
a handsome youth passed by his house. He invited him inside and
beheaded him.
Then he summoned the wife's relatives and told them the fictitious
story. They were satisfied but the person who had devised this plan
had a teenage son who did not reach home that day. Theman was worried
and when the son failed to turn up he came to the house of the one
whom he had offered evil advice and asked him if he carried out the
plan suggested by him. Yes, said he and took him near the dead bodies.
He was shocked when he saw that the youth he had killed was his own
son.
His evil advice caused thedeath of his own son.
The moral of this story is that one who digs a pit for others falls
into it himself. History is replete with such incidents.
According to Tafserul Mizan the following saying was common among the
Arabs: One who digs a hole for his brother; Allah throws himheadlong
into it. A similarproverb is present in Persian also: Do not do evil
to anyone the same evil will turn towards you.
Reference: Greater Sins Vol. 3 (English) by Ayatullah Dastagaub Shirazi