12 Mar 2025
1. Please give essence of the following Hadith.
[Shri Anil asked:- Padanamaskaram Swami, I request You to give essence of the following Hadiths. At Your Divine Lotus Feet-anil. The Messenger of Allah, said, “The Hour will not be established until the sun rises from the west. When it rises from the west, all people together will believe. Yet on that day, ‘No soul will benefit from his faith if he did not believe earlier, nor earn good from his faith.'” [Sahih al-Bukhari 4636]]
Swami replied:- Rise of the Sun from the west indicates the miracle of God. All theists and atheists have to believe the miracle through which the existence of God is to be accepted. The theist encouraged by such miracle will be benefitted more than an atheist because in the case of the atheist, only fundamental faith in the existence of God is established.
2. Please give essence of the following Hadith.
[Narrated Aisha: The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, "Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman if they pass in front of the praying people." [Sahih al-Bukhari 511]]
Swami replied:- The prayer is valid only for any human being having good logical analysis coming from bright intelligence.
3. Please give essence of the following Hadith.
[That the Meccan people requested Allah's Messenger to show them a miracle, and so he showed them the splitting of the moon. [Sahih al-Bukhari 3637]]
Swami replied:- A miracle is very essential in the case of basic ignorant people and atheists.
4. Please give essence of the following Hadith.
["Fever is from the heat of Hell, so cool it with water." [Sahih al-Bukhari 3263]]
Swami replied:- The heat indicates the punishment of sin and the water indicates the devotion to God and doing merits.
5. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
["The sun runs its course to its resting place. That is the decree of the Almighty, the All-Knowing. At the end of the day, the sun prostrates itself underneath the Throne and takes permission to rise again." [Sahih al-Bukhari 3199]]
Swami replied:- This means that even the sun is rising and setting by the order of God only. This is also told in the Veda that sun rises due to his fear for God (Bhīṣodeti sūryaḥ…).
6. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
["Angels do not enter a house wherein there is a dog or a picture." [Sahih al-Bukhari 3225].]
Swami replied:- Dog means a very faithful climax devotee. Picture means a divine preacher represented by His photo. In such place, even an angel cannot preach the devotees due to the presence of the higher and the highest faculties.
7. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
[The Prophet said, "A believer is not stung twice by something out of one and the same hole." [Sahih al-Bukhari 6133].]
Swami replied:- A believer is tested only once since he/she will learn the lesson with the spiritual knowledge that pierces his/her heart in the very first attempt.
8. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
[The Prophet used to take care of us in preaching by selecting a suitable time, so that we might not get bored. He abstained from pestering us with sermons and knowledge all the time. [Sahih Al-Bukhari, 68]]
Swami replied:- Repetition of the same concept again and again through a very long discourse is not good for a preacher. He can preach the same concept in different angles, which will not bore the audience.
9. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
[A man said to the Prophet, “Counsel me,” so he said, “Do not become angry.” The man repeated his request for counsel several times, and each time he said, “Do not become angry.” [Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi, 16].]
Swami replied:- Conquering the anger means developing patience. Patience is a very essential pre-requisite for receiving true spiritual knowledge.
10. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
["Whoever wrongfully takes a span of land, his neck will be encircled with it down seven earths on the Day of Resurrection." [Sahih al-Bukhari 2453]]
Swami replied:- Even a small sin done by the human being will end in a very strong punishment as per the order given by God on the 10th day of enquiry after death.
11. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
["The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday. On this day Adam was created, on this day he was admitted to Paradise, on this day he was expelled from it." [Sahih Muslim 854]]
Swami replied:- In Islam, Friday is treated as a special holy day. The reasons are given here.
12. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
["There is a tree in Paradise that a rider would travel under its shade for one hundred years without crossing it." [Sahih al-Bukhari 6552]]
Swami replied:- Without coming out of the illusion of enjoyment, the human soul in heaven will spend all the time without devotion to God. The illusory worldly pleasure looking like the shadow without reality is explained through this statement.
13. Please give the essence of the following Hadith.
["The heart of the son of Adam is between two fingers of the Most Merciful, and He turns it as He wills." [Muslim 2654]]
Swami replied:- The human being is dancing like a doll as per the movement of the two fingers of God. The will of God is the ultimate deciding force in such dance of the human being.
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