«مِنْ يِزْرَعْ شِيءْ يُضُمُّهْ»

This proverb uses farming imagery to say that outcomes follow from actions. Whatever a person plants, they will eventually bring in, so their deeds determine what they later receive. Nothing else grows from the seed they chose.

The idea runs in both directions, so it is neither only a warning nor only encouragement. Kindness and effort lead to good returns, while harm and wrongdoing lead to unwelcome ones. Each person ends up holding the consequences of their own conduct.

Suitable when someone faces the results of their own earlier choices, whether rewarding or painful. It can praise diligence that has paid off or remark, sometimes pointedly, that trouble someone caused has come back to them.