Al-Hajj Al-Mabroor

We are commanded to salute all who died. On passing by the
cemetery we should say, ‘Peace be upon you abodes of believing
people. You preceded and we surely by the Will of Allah shall
follow you.’
If the salutation that the dead receive does not excite an emotional
reaction, it would be vain. If this were the case with normal human
beings, then how would it be with the Messenger of Allah (may
Allah bless him and grant him peace)?
The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him
peace) called upon those killed from amongst the disbelievers in
the first battle of faith fought in Badr. He stood, peace be upon
him, calling on the disbelievers by their names, asking whether
they found true what Allah has promised them. Upon which the
Companions asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah! Do you talk to them
when they have rotted?’ He answered, ‘By Allah you are not better
hearers (of the words I say) than them, but they do not speak.’
Some people think that hearing is only with ears, and seeing is
only with eyes, which is true in case of the living. But as for the
dead it is a different case; for every phase of life has its laws. The
worldly life has its own laws, and the Barzakh [The grave as the
barrier or the intermediate realm that separates between this world and
the other world from the time of death till the time of Resurrection] life
has its own laws too. Also the afterlife has its laws. Man lives by
the two laws: that of wakefulness and sleeping. But the law of the
sleeping is more transparent than that of wakefulness.
During sleep one can see the dead and talk to them, and see things
strange to the world we are living in. How did you see while your
eyes are closed? There must be other faculties that can see other
than the eyes.
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