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2312. Abū Dharr narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Indeed I see what you do not see, and I hear what you do not hear. The Heavens moan, and they have the right to moan. There is no spot, the size of four fingers in them, except that there is an angel placing his forehead in it, prostrating to Allāh. By Allāh! If you knew what I know, then you would laugh little and you would cry much. And you would not taste the pleasures of your women in the beds, and you would go out beseeching Allāh. And I wish that I was but a felled tree." (Hasan)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] There are narrations on this topic from 'Aishah, Abū Hurairah, Ibn 'Abbās, and Anas.
[He said:] This Hadīth is Hasan
Gharib. It has been related through routes other than this, that Abū Dharr said: "I wish that I was a felled tree." And it has been related from Abū Dharr in Mawqūf form.
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The scope of the sources of knowledge, hidden and apparent, such as ears, eyes, intellect etc, given by Allāh ﷻ to man, extends only as far as the seen world. The unseen world is beyond its capacity or domain. The way to acquire authentic and dependable knowledge about the unseen is to get it from what the Prophets and Messengers of Allāh inform us, on the basis of what Allāh gives them to see, hear and observe. Allāh lets them see what is unseen to us, in order that they make their people aware of those things who, in their turn, believe in them on the authority of these Prophets and Messengers.
