Question 86 - The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 2
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Question 86
Your Excellency, the respected ambassador, my greetings and peace to you. My question concerns the barzakh: how does the deceased live in the barzakh? Does he meet others and visit the dead and the living? Do they eat food and drink water? And what of the good deeds that we perform for them? Many thanks. Sender: George Boutros
Ahmed al-Hasan Response:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, the Imams and the Mahdis, and grant them abundant peace. People are of different kinds, and each kind has its own barzakh. The condition of the prophets, vicegerents, and guardians of Allah, Glorious is He, is not like that of other believers who commit acts of disobedience. Nor is the condition of ordinary disbelievers like that of the leaders of disbelief and corruption, such as Nimrod, who fought Allah’s prophet Abraham (a); Pharaoh, who fought Allah’s prophet Moses (a); or Hanania and Caiaphas, the Jewish scholars who did not act and who fought Allah’s prophet Jesus (a). By Allah’s permission, the deceased in the barzakh can visit the living and the dead. They eat and drink what is suited to the world into which they have descended and to their former deeds. The believers among them benefit from the good deeds that believers in this worldly life perform for them. I personally visited my father’s grave years ago; he spoke to me from the grave, and I heard his voice. Many living people see the dead visiting them in a vision-that is, in sleep. As for the prophets and vicegerents in the barzakh, they continue to perform the work with which Allah charges them, and they have deeds and effects in this world and in others ([154]).
Source: The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 2; Author: Imam Ahmed Al-Hasan; Question 86; Page Not available; AL-JAWAB-AL-MUNIR-V2-Q086. View Arabic source · Open the original Arabic source ↗
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↑ [154] This meaning appears in many narrations from the words of the pure progeny (a). The Commander of the Faithful (a) said in a sermon: ‘… People, take it from the Seal of the Prophets (s): whoever dies among us is not dead, and whoever decays among us is not decayed. Do not say what you do not know, for most of the truth lies in what you deny. Excuse the one against whom you have no proof. And I am he …’ Nahj al-Balagha, vol. 1, p. 154. Ammar ibn Marwan narrated from Samaa, who said: ‘I entered upon Abu Abdullah (a) while speaking to myself. He looked after me and said, “Why are you speaking to yourself? Do you desire to see Abu Jafar (a)?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Rise and enter the house.” There was Abu Jafar (a).’ Basair al-Darajat by Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Saffar, p. 295. A group of the Shia came to al-Hasan ibn Ali (a) after the Commander of the Faithful (a) was killed and asked him. He said: ‘Would you recognize the Commander of the Faithful (a) if you saw him?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Raise the curtain.’ They raised it, and there before them was the Commander of the Faithful (a), whom they could not fail to recognize. The Commander of the Faithful (a) said: ‘Whoever dies among us is not dead, and whoever remains among us remains as a proof against you.’ Basair al-Darajat by Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Saffar, p. 295. (Commentator.)
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- ↑ Ahmed Al-Hasan. The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 2. Question 86; Page Not available. AL-JAWAB-AL-MUNIR-V2-Q086. View Arabic source
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Ahmed Al-Hasan. The Enlightening Answer Across the Ether, Vol 2. Question: 86. Page: Not available. AL-JAWAB-AL-MUNIR-V2-Q086. https://ahmedalhasan.org/ar/Library/BookContent/52