📅 Hindi Lesson – Murli of 17 Jully 2026

📅 Murli sentence of 17 Jully 2026

📜 Hindi

अल्लाह कहते हैं तो भी लिंग की पूजा करते हैं।

🔤 Transliteration

allāh kahte haiṃ to bhī liṅg kī pūjā karte haiṃ.

💬 Translation

Even those who call Him “Allah” worship the liṅga.

A more concessive translation is:

Although they call Him “Allah”, they nevertheless worship the liṅga.

This translation reflects the literal statement of the Murli. It does not, however, describe how Muslims themselves understand their religious practices.

Full context

अल्लाह कहते हैं तो भी लिंग की पूजा करते हैं।
allāh kahte haiṃ to bhī liṅg kī pūjā karte haiṃ.
Even those who call Him “Allah” worship the liṅga.

ईश्वर अथवा खुदा कहते हैं तो जरूर उनकी निशानी चाहिए ना।
īśvar athavā khudā kahte haiṃ to zarūr unkī niśānī cāhiye nā.
If they call Him Ishwar or Khuda, there must surely be some symbol representing Him, must there not?

लिंग को सब तरफ पूजते हैं।
liṅg ko sab taraf pūjte haiṃ.
The liṅga is worshipped everywhere.

चित्रों में भी आजकल देवताओं के आगे परमपिता परमात्मा का चित्र लिंग दिखाते हैं।

citroṃ meṃ bhī ājkal devatāoṃ ke āge paramapitā paramātmā kā citra liṅg dikhāte haiṃ.

Nowadays, even in pictures, the Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul, is shown before the deities in the form of a liṅga.

📚 Vocabulary

अल्लाह — allāh
Allah, the Arabic name for God.

कहना — kahnā
To say; to call; to refer to someone by a particular name.

In अल्लाह कहते हैं — allāh kahte haiṃ, the sense is:

“They call Him Allah.”

The object “Him” is understood from the context and is not expressed in Hindi.

तो भी — to bhī
Even then; nevertheless; despite that; also.

Depending on the context, it may express either concession or inclusion:

“Although they call Him Allah…”

or:

“Those who call Him Allah also…”

लिंग — liṅg
Liṅga; here, the symbolic form associated with Shiva or with God.

In this sentence, लिंग — liṅg does not mean “grammatical gender”.

पूजा — pūjā
Worship, ritual veneration, devotional practice.

पूजा करना — pūjā karnā
To worship; to perform pūjā; to venerate.

निशानी — niśānī

A sign, symbol, mark, reminder or representation.

⚙️ ️Grammar

1. The subject is omitted

In:

अल्लाह कहते हैं — allāh kahte haiṃ

the subject is not explicitly stated. It may be understood as:

• people;
• those who use the name Allah;
• or, from the context, Muslims.

However, the word मुसलमान — musalmān, “Muslims”, does not actually appear in the sentence.

2. कहना — kahnā means “to call” here

The literal structure is:

अल्लाह कहते हैं
“They say Allah.”

In natural English, it means:

“They call Him Allah.”

God is the understood object of the verb.

3. तो भी — to bhī

This expression creates a contrast or concession:

“even then”
“despite this”
“nevertheless”

The implied structure is:

अल्लाह कहते हैं, तो भी…
“Although they call Him Allah, nevertheless…”

It can also carry the sense of “they too”, depending on how the passage is interpreted.

4. The construction X की पूजा करना

लिंग की पूजा करना
liṅg kī pūjā karnā

breaks down as:

• लिंग की — liṅg kī: of the liṅga;
• पूजा — pūjā: worship;
• करना — karnā: to do.

Literally:

“to perform the worship of the liṅga”

More naturally:

“to worship the liṅga”.

The Kaaba

The Kaaba, in Arabic الكعبة — al-Kaʿba, is the sanctuary situated at the centre of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

It is a large, nearly cubical building covered with a black cloth called the kiswa.

The Kaaba indicates the qibla, the direction towards which Muslims face when praying.

Muslims do not believe that the Kaaba is Allah or that it is a physical representation of Allah. It is the sacred focal point of prayer and pilgrimage.

The Black Stone

The Black Stone is called:

الحجر الأسود — al-Ḥajar al-Aswad

• ḥajar: stone;
• aswad: black.

It is set into one corner of the Kaaba.

What can be seen today is:

• a dark and irregular surface;
• several joined fragments;
• a broad silver frame surrounding them.

The visible frame is roughly oval, but this oval appearance mainly belongs to the silver setting. The stone itself consists of irregular dark fragments.

It does not have the usual complete upright form of a śivaliṅga.

Its religious meaning for Muslims

During the ṭawāf, pilgrims walk seven times around the Kaaba.

Each circuit begins near the corner containing the Black Stone. When passing it, pilgrims may:

• kiss it;
• touch it;
• or make a gesture towards it from a distance.

This practice follows the example of the Prophet Muhammad.

From the Muslim point of view, the Black Stone is not Allah and is not an image of Allah. Muslims do not believe that the stone itself has divine power.

It is respected as a sacred part of the pilgrimage and as an object connected with prophetic tradition.

A well-known Islamic account reports that the Caliph ʿUmar said that he knew it was only a stone, unable by itself to cause harm or bring benefit. He kissed it because he had seen the Prophet do so.

Therefore, according to Islam:

The Black Stone is honoured, but it is not worshipped as Allah and is not regarded as a representation of Allah.

The BK interpretation

In the language of the Murli, the names:

• अल्लाह — allāh;
• ईश्वर — īśvar;
• खुदा — khudā;
• परमपिता परमात्मा — paramapitā paramātmā,

are understood as different names used for the one incorporeal Supreme Being.

The key word in the context is:

निशानी — niśānī
A sign, symbol or memorial representation.

The BK interpretation is that human beings have preserved material signs of God in different religious traditions, even though the original spiritual meaning of those signs has been forgotten or changed.

Within this interpretation, the liṅga is understood as a symbolic representation of incorporeal God, Shiva. It is not considered to be God Himself, but a memorial image of the point-like, incorporeal Supreme Soul.

The Murli therefore appears to connect the Black Stone of Mecca with the liṅga. Its dark colour, sacred position and oval silver setting are interpreted within the BK framework as traces of an ancient symbol of the incorporeal Supreme Being.

However, two viewpoints must be clearly distinguished.

According to Islam

The Black Stone is:

• not Allah;
• not an image of Allah;
• not a śivaliṅga;
• and not worshipped as God.

According to the BK interpretation of the Murli

The honour shown to the stone may be understood as a transformed or incomplete memorial of the original recognition of the one incorporeal God.

This is a BK doctrinal interpretation. It is not the way Muslims themselves explain the Black Stone.

Overall meaning of the sentence

The sentence is based on the idea that different religions use different names for God but preserve various signs and symbols associated with Him.

The Murli interprets these diverse symbols as memories of the one incorporeal Supreme Soul.

A careful explanatory translation would therefore be:

“Even those who call Him Allah venerate a symbol which the Murli interprets as a form of the liṅga.”

This wording preserves the BK meaning while making it clear that Muslims themselves do not identify the Black Stone with a liṅga or with Allah.

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