The False Prophet

This story is about a lazy man named Mahmoud who uses deception to gain respect and money. After becoming bored of being lazy he travels to another land and changes his name to Aidra, which gains respect for himself among the local people. He then collects money for performing prayers and other things and travels from "compound to compound" in order to get free meals (the custom being to feed strangers). Eventually, he finds himself in the middle of the desert next to a sole flourishing tree. He decides to stop and rest under it. Before laying down to sleep he gets a feeling that someone is around him. He checks the tree and his surroundings several times before burying his treasure underneath him while he sleeps. He wakes up, after a dream of being ransacked and shaved, and began to pray. While doing so, he realizes his dream was a reality and his head and face had been shaved clean. He digs for his treasure only to find his hair. After a conversation with voices in his head he runs off into the desert as a crazed man. The only real meaning or moral to this story I could find was, what comes around goes around, meaning, he spent all his time fooling others for his own gain only to have it taken away while he slept.