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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Benefits of the Hadith: (The earth will be one single loaf of bread on the Day of Resurrection...)

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The Shaykh : It contains evidence for the permissibility of laughing, because it brings joy. If a person laughs until his molars are visible, there is no harm. As for smiling, the expansion of the chest, and the brightening of the face when something supports a person, that is common. However, laughing may be slight, but there is no harm in it.
Also in this hadith, the feeding of this loaf is by a bull and a fish. The bull is known as the mention of cattle, and the fish is the whale. But note that the bull mentioned here is not like the bull we observe, because what is in Paradise agrees with what is in this world only in name, whereas in reality there is a great difference between them. Allah the Exalted said:
And no soul knows what has been hidden for them of comfort for eyes as reward for what they used to do. فلا تعلم نفس ما أخفي لهم من قرة أعين جزاء بما كانوا يعملون
[As-Sajdah 32:17]
And Allah the Exalted said in the Holy Hadith:
I have prepared for My righteous slaves (such excellent things) as no eye has ever seen, nor an ear has ever heard nor a human heart can ever think of. أعددت لعبادي الصالحين مالا عين رأت ولا أذن سمعت ولا خطر على قلب بشر
Sahih al-Bukhari 7498
If what is in Paradise were similar in reality to what is in this world, the souls would know what has been hidden for them as a delight for the eyes. So this bull is named a bull, but its reality is not like the reality of bulls in this world. Likewise, the fish. It is said that seventy thousand eat from the excess of their livers, and yet it is for the people of Paradise, for the people of Paradise, and with that, the provision. Do not say, "If seventy thousand eat the excess of their livers, the rest will be close to this." We say, no, perhaps there is blessing in the rest so that millions eat from it. Or perhaps his meaning by saying seventy thousand is exaggeration, exaggeration in quantity, as in His saying, the Exalted:
If you should ask forgiveness for them seventy times إن تستغفر لهم سبعين مرة فيغفر الله لهم
[At-Tawbah 9:80]
And as it came in the hadith, seventy thousand enter, seventy thousand enter Paradise without reckoning or punishment, and yet the hadiths are authentic that with each one are seventy thousand. So the result is that these are matters of the unseen. A person must submit to them, submit to them, and not oppose them with his intellect, because intellects are too short to comprehend that. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, said to those who asked about the soul: O servant of Allah, what did He say?
The reader:
And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about the soul. Say, "The soul is of the affair of my Lord ويسئلونك عن الروح قل الروح من أمر ربي
[Al-Isra 17:85]


The Shaykh :
And they ask you, [O Muhammad], about the soul. Say, "The soul is of the affair of my Lord ويسئلونك عن الروح قل الروح من أمر ربي
[Al-Isra 17:85]
And mankind have not been given of knowledge except a little." وما أوتيم من العلم إلا قليلاً
[Al-Isra 17:85]
Meaning, what remains for you of the knowledge you know is only the soul. Many things of knowledge have not been given to us, and we do not know them.
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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