Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

Mûsâ Kâzim was like a theriac for him for the acceptance of his
prayers, and that he had experienced it a number of times. Imâm-i
Ghazâlî said that a person who was made an intermediary and
thereby enabled to give gave faid could be made an intermediary
and could give fayd after his death, too. One of the superior great
shaikhs said that he had seen four great Awliyâ who were active
after death as well as when they had been alive; two of them were
Ma’ruf-i Karkhî and ’Abdulqâdîr Geylânî. Ahmad bin Zarrûq, one
of the great Western savants and a Walî at the same time, said:
Abul-’Abbâs-i Hadramî asked me, ‘Who helps more, a living Walî
or a dead Walî?’ I said, ‘Everybody said a living Walî, but I say that
a dead Walî helps more.’ ‘You are right, for he is among the people
when alive, but he is in the presence of Allâhu ta’âlâ when dead.’ he
said. ’Ahmad bin ’Uqba Abul-’Abbâs Hadramî is a great Walî. His
biography is written in the entry ‘Demirdash’ in the book Jâmi’-u
karâmât-ul-Awliyâ. He explains clearly through âyat-i-kerîmas and
hadîth-i-sherîfs that man’s soul does not die when he dies. He adds
that the soul is conscious and notices the visitors and what they do.
The souls of the perfect murshîds and the Awliyâ are in high grades
when they are dead as well as when they are alive. Spiritually they
are close to Allâhu ta’âlâ. Karâmats happen through the Awliyâ
both in the world and after death. It is their souls through which
karâmats happen. And the soul does not die with man’s dying.
Allâhu ta’âlâ, alone, makes and creates the karâmats. Everything
comes into being with His power. Every person, both when alive
and when dead, is nothing before Allâhu ta’âlâ’s power. For this
reason, it is not surprising that Allâhu ta’âlâ sends blessings to a
slave of His through one of His beloved ones. We always see that
He creates many things and sends them through the living ones.
Man cannot create anything when he is alive or dead. Only, he
serves as a a cause, a means for Allâhu ta’âlâ’s creating.”
Hadrat Mawlânâ ’Abdulhakîm-i Siyâlkutî says in the book
entitled Zâd-ul-labîb by taking excerpts from the Arabic
explanation of Ashi’at-ul-lama’ât by ’Abd-ul-Haqq-i-Dahlawî:
“Many people deny the fact that it is possible to get help from
people in graves. They say that visiting graves is intended for
invoking (Allâhu ta’âlâ) on behalf of the dead, for invoking
blessings on them. However, the majority of the great men of
Tasawwuf and the savants of Fiqh said that help from people in
graves was an established and experienced fact. Also, the Awliyâ
who have kashf communicated this unanimously. In fact, many
people reported that they were making progress (spiritually) by
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