Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

martyrs in Paradise. Every night their soul and body come
together. In the morning they return to Paradise.” Bayhakî
conveys from Sa’îd bin Musayyib: Hadrat ’Alî and I went to the
cemetery of Medina. He made 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 say the events after us.” As Ibn Ebiddunyâ
communicates, when hadrat ’Umar went to the cemetery and
made 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, made salâm, and said, “There are two
Gardens of Paradise for those who fear Allah and avoid
committing what is harâm.” A voice from the grave replied, “O
’Umar! My Allah has bestowed upon me both the Paradises.”
Sahâwî relates: Someone went to the cemetery 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 no longer 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 ’alaih’ in 934
hijri, was translated into Turkish by Sayyid Pîr Muhammad Nitâî
‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ 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’s being 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 person’s soul, thus
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