5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Bayhakî conveys from Sa’îd bin Musayyib: We went to the
cemetery of Medina with Hadrat Alî. He gave his salâm and
said, “Will you let us know in what state you are? Or would you
rather we told you our state?” We heard a voice saying, “Wa
alaikas salâm, yâ Emîr-al Mu’minîn. You tell those who will
follow us.” As Ibn Ebiddunyâ communicates, when hadrat ’Umar
went to the cemetery and gave his salâm, a voice said, “O
’Umar! We have been rewarded for what we did in the world.”
Ibni Asâkir relates that Hadrat ’Umar visited a youngster’s
grave, gave his salâm, and said, “There are two Paradises for
those who fear Allah and forbear what is harâm.” A voice from
the grave replied, “O ’Umar! My Allah has bestowed upon me
both the Paradises.” Sahâwî communicates: Someone came to
visit the grave of Hadrat Amr ibn Âs. He asked a person being
there if he knew where the grave was. When the latter pointed
to the grave with his foot, his foot became paralysed, and he
could not walk. Bayhakî conveys from Ya’lâ bin Murra:
Rasûlullah and Ya’lâ visited a grave. The latter heard sounds of
torment from the grave, and wanted to let Rasûlullah know.
Rasûlullah said “I hear them, too. He is being tormented
because he spread gossip and splashed his urine on
himself.”
The forty hadîth-i sherîfs, written by the geat Islamic savant
Ahmad bin Suleymân bin Kamâl Pasha (rahmatullâhi ’aleyh) in
934 hijri, was translated into Turkish by Sayyid Pîr Muhammad
Nitâî in 979. The translation was published in Istanbul in 1316.
The eighteenth hadîth-i sherîf of the translation states, “If you
get confused in doing something ask for help from the
dead!” Shaikh-ul islâm Ahmed Efendi explains the hadîth-i
sherîf as follows:
It is a strong love that has attached the soul to the body.
Man’s death means his soul is separated from his body. But the
soul’s love does not die after the separation. Long after death,
the soul still has the same love and strong attraction towards
the body. It is for this reason that it has been prohibited to break
the bones of the dead and to tread on graves.
If a person stands by the grave of a powerful, mature and
very effective high person and contemplates over that soil and
that high person’s body, since that high person’s soul is
attached to his body and thereby to that soil, the two souls will
meet. The visitor’s soul will receive many benefits from the high
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