Dars e Imam-Spiritual Life After Death

“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)

Awareness of the dead and their spiritual life in the graves

Firstly, the Qubur of the Prophets (as):A Sahih Hadith narrated by Imam Muslim (vol.2 p.268) states that the Nabi Muhammadﷺ said that on the night of Mi’raj he (s) passed by the grave of Sayyidina Musa (as) and saw him praying in his grave (idha bi Musa yusalli fi Qabrihi) This is evidence from the Sunnah of the Nabi Muhammad ﷺ that there are certain holy people of Allah (subhanu wa taala) who can even pray in the qabr .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).

About the Anbiya (Prophets) (as), there are no doubts since Abu Ya’la and al-Bazzar (in their Musnads)  narrate a sahih Hadith concering the Prophets that the Prophet (s) said that all of the Prophets are alive and praying in their graves. (al-Anbiya Ahyaa’un fi Quburihim yusalloon). The Arabic word for prayer used in this Hadith is (Salah),which may also mean du’a, besides the ritual Salah we know.

In another Sahih Hadith narrated by Abu Dawud, Nasai, Ibn Majah, Ahmad, Tabarani and others,  the Nabi Muhammad ﷺ said that one must make a lot of Salawat on the day of Jumu`ah as this will be presented to the Nabi Muhammad ﷺ. Then the Sahabah asked the Prophet ﷺ how their salawat was going to be presented to him after he had died and his body is no more, and the Prophet ﷺ replied that: “Allah (subhanu wa taala) has made it haram (forbidden) for the earth to consume the bodies of the Prophets” Things are only presented to someone if he is alive , fully aware and conscious of everything. This Hadith also shows that the Prophet ﷺ is aware of our salawat and our spiritual states, otherwise what is the meaning of this presentation?

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.

Prophet Muhammad’s (s) meeting with other Anbiya (as) 

We also know that 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.

Yet many people today want to deny the life of the Prophetﷺ who is in fact the Imam of all those prophets (as), saying that the Nabi Muhammadﷺ is dead and cannot go from place to place, that he is finished and has no awareness, A’udhu billah. May Allah (subhanu wa taala) protect us from such blasphemy. We all know about the incident of Mi’raj and the reason why Masjidul Aqsa is so dear to us and so holy is because the Prophetﷺ prayed there with all the Nabis. If we say that they never prayed there, then why is it so dear to us? What then is the significance of Aqsa? 

In Redd-i Muhtar: “They can be visited every week. The most virtious days are Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Thursday.”

In Fethu’l Kadir: “Praying while standing is in accordance with Sunnat”.

“Greetings to the people of the land of believers, we hope to join you if God wills.”

that the Prophet ﷺ would recite the beginning part of Sura of Baqhara at the head of a grave and the last part of it at the foot of it.

He would then pray while standing up and if he sat down, he would sit down near or far to the grave according to his relation in his life and read the easy parts of the Koran.

As for this, he would recite “Fatiha, the beginning part of Sura of Al-Baqhara, Ayetül’-Kürsi, آmenerresulü, Yasin, Mülk, Tekasür and Sura of Ihlas twelve, eleven, seven or three times and say: “My God, do accept the merits of what we have recited for the person who died. There is wide information about presenting merits to dead person by reciting the Koran and other pious deeds in “İbnü Abidin”.

It is in Hadith –   narrated by Buraidah (radiyAllahu ta’ala anhu) that the dear Prophet (sallAllahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said: “I used to forbid you from visiting the graves (but now I give you permission), you should visit them” (Muslim, Mishkat p.154)

Commenting on this hadith, the renowned Muhaqqiq, Shaykh Abdul Haq Dehlwi writes that because the period of ignorance had just passed, RasoolAllah ﷺ forbade the visitation due to fear of the Muslims returning to their old ways. However, when the people became well acquainted with the orders of Islam, then the dear Prophet ﷺallowed the visitation to take place (Ashi’atul Lum’aat, vol.1 p.717).

Good sohbat=spiritual association(muttaqi) ,increases ahkirat and good deeds (for the sake of Allah)

Bad sohbat =worldly association,increases bad deeds and decreases ahkirat (fitna/difficulties)

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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