The film's bedrock belief, and most pleasant fantasy, is that simple virtue brings earthly rewards.

As if he could not see through to that earthly reward.

Suraqa always rued the day he pursued Muhammad for the mere earthly reward of 100 red camels.

A few spoke of self-sacrifice and its earthly rewards.

"As I posted above, there are other references to his followers getting an earthly, political reward"

The reference to earthly reward is still there.

She had assumed that God and goodness, and therefore luck and all earthly and spiritual rewards, were on her side.

Governmental laws are motives for good behavior because they promise earthly rewards and punishments.

(The earthly rewards of scholarship are higher offices that extinguish the possibility of future scholarship.)

In the year 1904 there passed from his earthly reward in Pennsylvania a United States senator who had been throughout his lifetime a notorious and unblushing corruptionist.