(What is between my house and my pulpit is a garden from the gardens of Paradise): Is the intended meaning reward or blessing?

Abu Layli: The hadith Is the intended meaning the multiplication of reward or is it for blessing?

The Shaykh: This hadith does not intend for people to rush in as they do today, or to jostle for prayer in that place which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) described as a garden from the gardens of Paradise. This hadith is a report of the unseen (ghayb) that we must believe in: that this place is a garden from the gardens of Paradise. How? I do not know how. Many scholars say that on the Day of Resurrection it will be in Paradise, so it is a garden from the gardens of Paradise. It is possible that this is the case, and it is possible that it is in another form that we do not comprehend. This hadith is like other hadiths, for example: . This does not mean that you should go to it, seek blessing from it, and pray there. No, this is a report of the unseen that we believe in. Mount Uhud loves us and we love it. Likewise, for example: . This also does not mean the same meaning we mentioned earlier, namely that you should go to it, seek blessing from it, and pray there. No, these are reports of the unseen that are authentic from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so we believe in them and do not attribute legislative meanings to them. We worship Allah with them, as long as our righteous predecessors did not clarify that, neither by their words nor by their actions. Please.

The questioner: Do you tell me that you love me for the sake of Allah?

The Shaykh: May Allah love you who loved me for His sake, and may Allah bless you all.