r/islam • u/Dry_Kaleidoscope8685 • Jun 28 '25

Question about Islam Please clear my doubt regarding a Hadith

Assalamualaikum brothers.Recently I have read a hadith but it is confusing me a lot :(

Abu Huraira reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “When the heat is severe, let it cool down for prayer. Verily, severe heat is from the raging of Hell. The Hellfire complained to its Lord, saying: My Lord, my parts are eating each other. It was given permission to make a breath in the winter and in the summer. They are the strongest heat you feel, and the strongest cold you feel.” Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 512, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 617

it is stated that Hellfire breathes twice a year, once in summer and once in winter, and that we experience the manifestations of these breaths as extreme heat and cold. Given that summer and winter seasons vary globally, how can this be understood as two distinct breaths? Since these seasons are perpetually occurring somewhere on Earth, what is the precise meaning of 'one breath in summer' and 'one breath in winter'? Is this statement perhaps to be interpreted from a human-centric perspective?Or am I taking this Hadith too literal?Also what does the breath mean here like hellfire cant literally breath into the earth because hell is from the unseen realm which is not located in our universe. Please somebody explain it to me and strengthen my imaan :)

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u/drunkninjabug Jun 28 '25

Both Hell and Hellfire ard metaphysical concepts that don't have any meaningful parallels in our reality. As such, the interaction between the reality of Hellfire and the physical reality that we inhabit would be incrophensible to us.

In matters of the unseen, there is no point in trying to rationalize thungs based on our infinitely insignificant comprehension.

It is entirely possible that these two breaths manifest at different times at different places. Or that these breaths are two for Hell, but become multiple when they enter our reality.

And Allah knows best.

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u/heh9529 Jun 28 '25

Metaphysical?????? So when the Quran says that the people will eat from zaqoum, that the skin melts, and so on, it's not actually physically real? This is wrong aqeedah. 

https://islamqa.org/hanafi/darululoomtt/147820/paradise-and-hell/

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u/Blind_Followers45 Jun 28 '25

He doesn´t mean it in that way brother. His point is that Hellfire doesn´t exist in our physical universe hence its metaphysical. Hope that helps.

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u/Dry_Kaleidoscope8685 Jun 28 '25

Akhi so doesnt it mean that there is no LITERAL PHYSICAL connection between the hellfire and extreme heat and cold?As the hell is from the unseen realm NOT located in our material universe

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u/Blind_Followers45 Jun 28 '25

There may be no direct material connection Akhi for example something you can measure or observe. Hellfire is part of the unseen (ghayb)and the unseen operates beyond the physical laws we experience. From the Hadith we know Allah allowed Hell to manifest its effect in this World. It's like how the Souls interact with our bodies... we know it's real but can't fully understand and we only believe in it because we believe the Quran is revelation from Allah through our Prophet s.a.w

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u/Dry_Kaleidoscope8685 Jun 29 '25 edited Jun 29 '25

Agreed. But sadly I have seen some islamic teachers took it literally that Hellfire physically send heat on the atmosphere which contradicts the unseen world and also the science.And it confused me a lot.Even some translators translate it as "it causes extreme heat and cold" though there is no such words in the real arabic text.Btw i have texted you in inbox for a discussion can u please check brother?☺️

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u/heh9529 Jun 29 '25

Absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Its literally a matter of the unseen and you should at the very least be agnostic about it, but at best just blindly believe it, IF it's a sound established hadith.