Awliya -Qubur

“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem”Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

 

Aulia qubur

All of the Prophets are alive and praying in their graves. (Musnad Abu Ya’la and al-Bazzar)

“Allah (subhanu wa taala) has made it haram (forbidden) for the earth to consume the bodies of the Prophets” ( Ibn Majah, Ahmad, Tabarani)

On the night of Mi’raj he ﷺ passed by the grave of Sayyidina Musa (as) and saw him praying in his grave (Imam Muslim vol.2 p.268)

The ulama say that they are not praying because it is fard (obligatory) upon them  (since they have already died) but that they are praying for the sake of the love of Allah (subhanu wa taala) and because they enjoy praying and thus talking to Allah (subhanu wa taala).

The Arabic word for prayer used in this Hadith is (Salah),which may also mean du’a, besides the ritual Salah we know.

The Prophet ﷺ is aware of our salawat and our spiritual states. So they are alive in the graves, they are praying, they are aware of who is making salawat on them -“ in short, they know us.

On the night of Mi’raj, all the Prophets (as) assembled in Masjidul Aqsa, physically (or spiritually as some say), but all of these prophets save `Isa (as) had already died, so to say. Yet that night they met the Nabi Muhammad ﷺ, spoke to him and prayed behind him. And when he went into the samawat (the skies) he ﷺ met them again. This shows, and we know it from many Sahih Hadith concerning the Mi’raj (Ascension) that these Prophets were alive and they went to the Aqsa, went to the skies and met the Nabi Muhammad ﷺ.

The reason why Masjidul Aqsa is so dear to us and so holy is because the Prophet ﷺ prayed there with all the Nabis.

Sayyidina Musa (as) benefitted us on that night because Allah (subhanu wa taala) had made fifty Prayers fard on us. But, through the intermediary action of Musa (as) this number was reduced to five times daily.

Musa (as) had passed away 4,000 years before that night of Mi’raj, yet there he was, acting as an intermediary for the Ummah of the Nabi Muhammad ﷺ.

If this is the ability of Musa (as), what about the best of creation, the Imam of prophets, our own Nabi Muhammad ﷺ?

Can the Nabi Muhammad ﷺ not help us today if Sayyidina Musa (as) could help us then?

The great Tabi’i  (a person who met the Sahabah) Thabit al-Bannani, used to say “O Allah! If you would give anyone the honour of making salah in the qabr (grave), give me that honour.”

Abu Na’im narrates that on the day of Thabit’s death ,Jubair (r) one of the great Tabi’in also, said: “I swear by Allah who created me, other than whom there is no Lord, I put Thabit al-Bannani in his his qabr that day when we buried him and with me was a person named Humaid at-Taweel and when we had finished putting the stones on the qabr one of the bricks fell down and I saw  Thabit al-Bannani making salat in his qabr.” In other words, Allah (subhanu wa taala) accepted the du’a of this great wali to make salat in his grave .(narrated by Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Abu Na’im)

If anyone buries his brother, that he must put on a beautiful kafan for the dead person because they visit one another in the grave (innahum yatazaawarun). (Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah)

If ordinary Muslim dead can visit one another in their Qubur, then how much greater is not the status and ability of the Awliya Allah in their Qubur?

one of the Sahabah put his tent over a qabr without knowing it and when he was inside the tent, he heard someone reciting surat al-Mulk. He went to Nabi Muhammad ﷺ and told him what he heard. Nabi Muhammad ﷺ informed him that surat al-Mulk is a protection against punishment in the qabr, and is protecting the man buried there. (Tirmidhi, Nasa’i,Hakim)

The `Ulama of Hadith explain that that man loved reciting surat al-Mulk when he was alive and thus Allah (subhanu wa taala) granted him that he could recite it in his qabr as well.

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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