Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Clarify hadith on Arabic in Paradise

“Our scholars narrate a hadith that the Messenger of Allah said that in Paradise, the language of the believers will be Arabic. Please clarify this.”Asked by ارشاد علی, رام پور

He answers at 39:44 in The Deeper Meaning of The Quran · 2 min 7 sec

His answer, in his own words
39:44
Maulana, agla comment aur sawal Rampur se aaya hai. Irshad Ali sahib ne bheja hai. Unhon ne likha hai: "Maulana, aaj bhi aap ke alawa hamare saare ulama ibaadat ke sirf form hi batate hain. Spirit ki baat koi bhi nahi karta. Jazak Allah Maulana. Maulana, mera sawal yeh hai ke hamare ulama ek hadees bayan karte hain. Rasool Allah ne farmaya ke jannat mein ahle momin ki zuban Arabic hogi. Maulana, is ko wazeh karein. Yeh hadees hi nahi hai, yeh to fabricated kalam kisi ka hai. Yeh bilkul hi yani absurd baat hai."
40:38
aisa kuch bhi nahi hai. dekhiye, jannat jab akhirat mein woh uloom unfold honge, is ke bare mein kaha gaya hai quran mein do ayatein aayi hain. yani agar sari dunya ek darakht qalb bana diya jaye aur tamam samandar roshnai ho jaye aur likha jaye allah ke kalam, kalam kalmat ko to khatam nahi hoga. to itne zyada jo uloom hain, woh arabi zaban kaise aayenge? arabi zaban ki bigadi to bohat ma'dood hai. to yeh bohat hi zyada ghalat aqeedah ban gaya hai ke ke jannat ki zaban ki zaban arabi hogi. jannat ki zaban afaqi zaban hogi, afaqi jis mein aap tamam kalmat allah ko samjhein.
41:36
afaqi zaban kisi sahih hadith mein yeh baat nahi hai, yeh to ek myth hai. maulana, agla sawal kanpur se bheja hai mu'eenuddin sahib ne. unhon ne likha hai: "Maulana, you areright.
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