Is it correct to say to dead people (saints, etc.), at their graves
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Assalm
O Alikum,
Is it
correct to say to dead people (saints, etc.), at their graves, that "O so
and so, make dua to Allah for me". For example, is it correct to say, at
the grave of Rasool Allah (SAW), "Ya Rasool Allah (SAW), make dua to Allah
to grant me this or that". Is this permissible? I have read your standard
reply on Tawassul, but i would really appreciate it if you told me whether or
not the above statement is permissible? And How is it as people says Mohammed
(SAW) (P.B.U.H) was "Noor" & Bushar" at the same time, and
they gives an example of cloud that cover him (SAW) all the time whereever he
(SAW) goes. They also say that Mohammed (SAW) (P.B.U.H) is still alive and he
is in cover (Pardah) so as other saints (Valee Allah).
Thanks,
Faraz
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Answer:
Invoke noor alive pm
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Your Question: Is it
correct to say to dead people (saints, etc.), at their graves, that "O so
and so, make dua to Allah for me".
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 35 Surah
Fatir verse 22:
22 Nor are alike those that are living and those that are dead. Allah can make any that He wills to hear; but
thou canst not make those to hear who are (buried) in graves.
Those buried in their graves do not have the power to hear
the invocations of the alive, nor do those who are alive have the power to make
heard their invocations to the dead.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah
Zumar verse 42:
42 It is Allah that takes the souls (of men) at death: and those that
die not (He takes) during their sleep: those on whom He has passed the Decree
of death He keeps back (from returning to life), but the rest He sends (to
their bodies) for a term appointed.
Verily in this are Signs for those who reflect.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 23 Surah
Muminoon verses 99-100:
99 (In falsehood the disbelievers will remain) until when death comes
to one of them (and he sees the Reality), he says: "O my Lord! Send me
back (to life)
100 In order that I may work righteousness in the things I
neglected." By no means! It is but
a word he says; before them is ‘Barzakh’ (an unpenetrable Partition) till
the Day they are raised up.
In light of the above absolutely clear guidance of the
Glorious Quran, the souls of those who taste death are deposited by Allah
Subhanah in the ‘Barzakh’, which is an absolutely unpenetrable Partition; and
the dead will only be raised again on the Day of Judgment.
No human being who is alive can access or correspond with
the souls which are deposited in the Barzakh by Allah Subhanah; nor can any
deceased soul access or correspond with those who are alive.
Your Question
(again): Is it correct to say to dead people (saints, etc.), at their graves,
that "O so and so, make dua to Allah for me".
It is the Absolutely Exclusive Attributes of Allah
Subhanah, that He and He Alone is the All-Hearing, All-Seeing, All-Knowing, and
the Ever-and-Always Alive. To assume
that those dead in their graves can hear or respond to an invocation is to
assign an Absolutely Exclusive Attribute of Allah Subhanah with another in
creation, and thus a clear manifestation of the abomination and most heinous
crime of ‘shirk’!!!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 16 Surah
Nahl verse 20-21:
All the other beings, whom the people
invoke with Allah, create nothing!
Nay, they are themselves created.
They are DEAD, not living, and they do not at all know themselves
when they shall again be raised to life!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumur verse 2-3:
So worship Allah Alone, making your religion His
exclusively. Beware! Religion is the exclusive Right of
Allah. As for those who have taken
other ‘auliyas’ with Allah (and justify their this conduct by saying):
“We serve them only that they may bring us closer to Allah.” Allah will surely judge between them
concerning all that in which they differ.
Allah does not show guidance to any liar and denier of the Truth.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 46 Surah
Ahqaf verses 4-6:
Prophet, say to them, "Have you ever
seen them with open eyes those whom you invoke instead of Allah? Show
me what they have created in the earth? Or have they any share in the creation
and control of the heavens? Bring me a Book revealed before this, or produce
some remnant of knowledge in support of your beliefs if you are truthful."
And who could be further astray than the one who invokes, instead of Allah,
those who cannot answer him till the Day of Resurrection. Nay, they are even
UNAWARE THAT THEY ARE BEING INVOKED. And when all mankind shall be gathered
together (on the Day of Qiyamah), they (the so called leaders and intercessors)
will become enemies of those who invoked them and they will DISOWN THEIR
WORSHIP!!!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 10 Surah
Yunus verse 66:
Note it well that all the dwellers of the
heavens and the earth belong to Allah. And
those who invoke partners besides Allah, follow nothing but surmises and merely
indulge in guess-works!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 35Surah
Fatir verses 13-14:
He merges night into day, and day into night, and
he has subjected the Sun and the Moon (to His Law); each one runs its course
for an appointed term. Such is Allah,
your Lord! To Him belongs all Dominion. Those
whom you invoke besides Him, do not own
even a blade of grass! If you call
them, they cannot hear your prayers! And if they hear, they cannot answer
you! And on the Day of Resurrection, they
will disown your ‘shirk’. None can
inform you of the Truth, like the One Who is acquainted with all things.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 10 Surah Yunus
verse 18:
These people serve beside Allah those which can
neither harm nor benefit them, and say, “These are our ‘shofa’a’ (intercessors)
with Allah!” (O Mohammed), tell them,
“Do you wish to inform Allah of that thing which He knows not in the heavens,
or in the earth?” He is absolutely free
from, and exalted above the shirk
that they commit.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah
Kahf verse 102:
What? Do
these people, who have disbelieved, presume that they would make My servants
their ‘auliyaas’ besides Me? We
have prepared Hell for the hospitality of such people.
Your Question
(again): Is it correct to say to dead people (saints, etc.), at their graves,
that "O so and so, make dua to Allah for me".
Beloved brother, in light of the above quoted verses of the
Glorious Quran, it is an absolutely clear manifestation of ‘shirk’ to invoke
any dead or deceased person, regardless of whether that deceased person is a
saint or a Prophet!!!
It is permissible and encouraged in Islam to make dua or
supplications for the deceased, but to invoke the deceased, or to
make a supplication to the deceased is a clear and manifest act
of the unforgivable and heinous crime of ‘shirk’ in the Sight of Allah
Subhanah.
Your Question: For
example, is it correct to say, at the grave of Rasool Allah (SAW), "Ya
Rasool Allah (SAW), make dua to Allah to grant me this or that". Is this
permissible?
Regardless of whether the deceased is a saint or one of
the mightiest Prophets of the Lord, to invoke them, or make a supplication TO
them is a manifest act of the unforgivable and heinous crime of ‘shirk’!!!
Your Question: How
is it as people says Mohammed (SAW) (P.B.U.H) was "Noor" &
Bushar" at the same time, and they gives an example of cloud that cover
him (SAW) all the time whereever he (SAW) goes. They also say that Mohammed
(SAW) (P.B.U.H) is still alive and he is in cover (Pardah) so as other saints
(Valee Allah).
Allah Subhanah clearly Declares in the Quran that He
created the first human being of clay and created his progeny from a nature of
fluid. Prophet Mohamed (saws) was,
without an iota of a doubt, a ‘bashar’ (human being), and thus he (saws) was NOT
created from ‘noor’ like the angels. There
is absolutely no truth to the statement that the Noble Prophet Mohamed (saws)
was created from ‘Noor’ or Light!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 32 Surah
As-Sajdah verses 7-8:
7
He Who has made everything which He has created most
Good. He began the creation of man
with (nothing more than) clay.
8
And made his progeny from a quintessence of
the nature of a fluid despised.
Some people, in their excess, try to hold and spread such
false beliefs that the Prophet (saws) was not created like the other human
beings, and thus try to propagate that he (saws) was created like the Angels
from ‘noor’ or light! Because they
believe that if the Prophet (saws) was only a human being, then what would be
the difference between him and other human beings? So, in their excess, they try to invent
falsehoods and say things about the Prophet (saws) and his self which have absolutely
no basis in reality! People who claim
such falsehood, in their excess and their ignorance, try to belittle the noble
Prophet (saws) by claiming he was created from ‘noor’! The greatness and significance of the Noble
Prophet (saws) lies in the fact that he, like all the other human beings, was
created from clay, possessed the nature of a human being, and was bestowed with
a ‘free will’ to choose like every human being; and the Noble Prophet (saws)
chose to submit himself unconditionally to His Supreme Lord and Creator.
Had he (saws) been created from ‘noor’, he would have been
an angel, who do not possess the nature of human beings, do not have to fight
temptation like the humans, and do not possess a ‘free will’ to choose between
obedience and disobedience! Greatness
and magnificence is when one is bestowed with the weak nature of man, and this
human being chooses to remain an obedient slave of his Lord and Creator!
Allah Subhanah has Himself commanded the Prophet (saws) to
declare in the Glorious Quran, that he
(saws) is no more than a ‘bashar’ (human being); the only difference being that
he (saws) has been chosen as a Messenger of Allah, is directly inspired and
guided by Allah Subhanah, and receives Revelations from the Lord of the Worlds.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 18 Surah
Kahf verse 110:
Say (O Prophet) : "I am but a ‘bashar’
(human) like yourselves (but)
the inspiration has come to me: that your Allah is one Allah: whoever expects to meet his Lord, let him work righteousness, and in the worship of his Lord admit no one
as partner."
Beloved brother in Islam, we assure you that there is
absolutely nothing in the Quran or Sunnah which even implies that the Messenger
of Allah (saws) was created from ‘Noor’; on the contrary the Glorious Quran
clearly declares that the Prophet (saws) was no more than a ‘bashar’ (human
being) like all human beings, and he (saws) received Revelations and Guidance
from Allah Subhanah.
Your
Statement:………..and they gives an example of cloud that cover him (SAW) all the
time whereever he (SAW) goes.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verse 57:
57 And We gave You (O Bani
When the Bani Israel were condemned to wander for 40 years
in the desert of Sinai due to their constant transgressions, the Lord provided
a constant shade of clouds wherever they went……ask the people who say that
their evidence for the Noble Prophet Mohamed (saws) being created from ‘noor’
is due to his being covered by a shade of the cloud, then what about the Bani
Israel….are they too created from ‘noor’?????
Your Statement: They
also say that Mohammed (SAW) (P.B.U.H) is still alive and he is in cover
(Pardah) so as other saints (Valee Allah).
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verse 255:
255 Allah! There is no god but He (Alone), The Ever-Living, The Self-Subsisting
Eternal.
One of the Noble and Exclusive Attributes of Allah
Subhanah is that He Alone is the Ever-Living.
It is the inherent nature of all creation, and I repeat, all creation
without exception, that they shall perish one day!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 28 Surah
Qasas verse 88:
88 And call not besides Allah on another god. There is no god but He. Everything
(that exists) will perish, except His Own Face. To Him belongs the Command and to Him will ye
(all) be brought back.
Regardless of whether one in creation is a Prophet of
Allah or anyone else, if one believes that there is someone in creation who is
ever-living, one would have dared to share an Exclusive Attribute that belongs
to Allah Subhanah with one in creation; and that would be a manifest form of
the abomination of ‘shirk’!
Allah is our witness, the Prophets of Allah were human
beings and Allah’s slave-servants who were sent with a
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 39 Surah Zumar verse 30-31:
(O Prophet) YOU SHALL
DIE, and they too shall die! Then on the Day of Resurrection, you all will present your disputes before
your Lord.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale Imraan verse 144:
Mohamed is no more
than a Messenger. Other Messengers have
already died before him. If then, he (saws) also dies or is slain, will you turn about on your heels? Remember, he who turns about on his
heels, will do no harm at all to
Allah. Of course, Allah will duly reward those who live as His
grateful servants.
It is reported from
Aisha that Allah's Messenger (saws) died while Abu Bakr was at a place called
As-Sunah (Al-'Aliya). Umar stood up and
said, "By Allah! Allah's Messenger
(saws) is not dead!" Umar (later
on) said, "By Allah! Nothing occurred to my mind except that." He said, "Verily! Allah will resurrect
him (saws) and he will cut the hands and legs of some men." Then Abu Bakr came and uncovered the face of
Allah's Messenger (saws), kissed him and said, "Let my mother and father
be sacrificed for you, (O Allah's Messenger (saws)), you are good in life and
in death. By Allah in Whose Hands my
life is, Allah will never make you
taste death twice." Then he went
out and said, "O oath-taker! Don't be hasty." When Abu Bakr spoke, Umar sat down. Abu Bakr praised and glorified Allah and
said, “No doubt! Whoever
worshipped Muhammad, then Muhammad is
dead, but whoever
worshipped Allah, then Allah is alive
and shall never die." Then he
recited Allah's Statement.:
"(O Muhammad) Verily you will die, and they also will die." (39.30)
He also recited: “Mohamed is no more
than a Messenger. Other Messengers have
already died before him. If then, he (saws) also dies or is slain, will you turn about on your heels? Remember, he who turns about on his heels, will do no harm at all to Allah. Of course,
Allah will duly reward those who live as His grateful servants.” (3.144)
In light of the above aayahs from the Quran and the
authentic and established narrations, it
is proved beyond any doubt that the Last Messenger of Allah and the Mercy and
Rahmah of Allah unto mankind, Mohamed ar
Rasool Allah (saws) tasted the element of death as Decreed for all in creation
by Allah Subhanah.
Allah Says in the Glorious Quran Chapter 3 Surah
Ale Imraan verse 185:
Every soul shall have a taste of death: and only on the Day of Judgment shall you be
paid your full recompense.
The Messenger of Allah (saws)
died a natural death and was buried in Hadrat Aisha’s house adjacent to the
Prophet’s (original) mosque in
Any who insists that the Messenger of Allah (saws) is not
dead, but only in a state of ‘sleep’, must be asked to present his evidence
from the Quran and the Sunnah for his theory or belief. If the person is unable to present his
evidence or proof from the Quran and the Sunnah, and Allah is our witness there
is absolutely nothing in the Quran or Sunnah which even remotely substantiates
such a belief, then one should know with conviction that the theory or belief
that the Prophet (saws) is alive in his grave is absolutely unsubstantiated,
baseless and absolutely against the guidance of the Quran and Sunnah.
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source
of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister