“جزا” in the Masnavi

Because of withholding obligatory almsgiving (zakat), rain clouds fail to rise; and because of adultery, plague spreads in all directions.

Whatever darkness and sorrow befall you, they arise from your own recklessness and insolence.

'He who has killed me for something inferior to me does not know that my blood will not rest quiet and unavenged.'

'Today it is upon me, and tomorrow it will be upon him; how could the blood of someone like me ever go to waste like this?'

'Although the wall casts a long shadow, that shadow ultimately returns to the wall itself.' (Just as the consequences of a person's actions are certain to return to them.)

'This world is like a mountain, and our deeds are the call we send into it; the echo of every call comes back to us.'