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""And your Lord says, ‘Call upon Me; I will respond to you.’ Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell humiliated." — Qur'an 40:60"
""When My servants ask you concerning Me, indeed I am near. I respond to the call of the supplicant when he calls upon Me."— Qur'an 2:186"
""Call upon your Lord in humility and privately; indeed, He does not like transgressors."— Qur'an 7:55"
""Is He [not best] who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him and removes evil?"— Qur'an 27:62"
""Dua is the essence of worship." — Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3371"
""There is nothing more noble to Allah the Glorified, than supplication."— Sunan Ibn Majah 3829"
""Whoever wishes that Allah may respond to him during hardship, then let him supplicate often during ease."— Tirmidhi 3382"
""No Muslim supplicates to Allah without sin or breaking ties, except that Allah gives him one of three: He hastens his request, stores it for the Hereafter, or averts harm equal to it." — Musnad Ahmad 11133"
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.