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"You will follow the ways of those who came before you, inch by inch and cubit by cubit, even if they were to enter the hole of a monitor lizard, you would follow them." We asked, "O Messenger of Allah! Do you mean the Jews and Christians?" He said, "Who else?"
"No fatigue, nor disease, nor sorrow, nor sadness, nor distress, nor grief befalls a Muslim, not even a thorn that pricks him, but Allah expiates some of his sins for that."
"Beware! Avoid sitting on the roadsides." The people said, "O Messenger of Allah! We have no alternative but to sit there and talk." The Prophet (PBUH) said, "If you must sit, then fulfill the rights of the road." They asked, "What are the rights of the road?" He said, "Lowering the gaze (avoiding looking at forbidden things), not harming people, responding to greetings, enjoining good, and forbidding evil."
"There is no gift better and more comprehensive than patience (sabr)."
"Whoever fasts for a single day in the path of Allah, Allah will place him seventy years away from Hell."
"Abu Sa'id al-Khudri was one of the most frequently quoted hadith narrators. According to one estimate, he narrated about 1,170 hadiths, making him the seventh most cited Companion in hadith transmission."
"Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (RA) was a great Muhaddith and a well-known Faqih."
"Narrated by Abu Sa'id al-Khudri: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, 'The entire Earth has been made a place of prayer for me, except for graveyards and bathrooms.'"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.