Combining the dead person hearing the striking of sandals with the saying of Allah the Exalted: “Indeed, you do not hear the dead”
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, how do we reconcile the dead person hearing the striking of sandals with the saying of Allah the Exalted:[An-Naml 27:80] and that they be Muslims.
The Shaykh:
There is no contradiction between the verse and the hadith, and praise be to Allah, because the intended meaning is making the dead hear the call to Islam. The dead person does not benefit from the call to Islam. This is in the category of drawing an analogy. The disbeliever who was stubborn is a dead person.[Al-An'am 6:122]?
The dead person is the disbeliever, and the one whom Allah gave life is the one who submitted to Islam. So Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says: You do not make these two stubborn ones hear your call to Islam, and they do not accept it and do not benefit from it, just as the dead person in his grave does not benefit from the call to Islam. So this is in the category of drawing an analogy, in the category of drawing an analogy, and it is not in the category of denying that the dead person hears. The dead person hears, but it is a special hearing from the matters of the barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection); it is not like his hearing in this world. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
You do not measure the matters of the barzakh and the matters of the Hereafter by the matters of this world. Remove this from your minds. The matters of the Hereafter and the matters of the barzakh are from the knowledge of the unseen, which no one knows except Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. And we only believe in the texts as they came.
Honorable Shaykh, how do we reconcile the dead person hearing the striking of sandals with the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Indeed, you will not make the dead hear, nor will you make the deaf hear the call when
إِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ الْمَوْتَىٰ وَلَا تُسْمِعُ الصُّمَّ الدُّعَاءَ إِذَاThe Shaykh:
There is no contradiction between the verse and the hadith, and praise be to Allah, because the intended meaning is making the dead hear the call to Islam. The dead person does not benefit from the call to Islam. This is in the category of drawing an analogy. The disbeliever who was stubborn is a dead person.
And is one who was dead and We gave him life
أَوَمَن كَانَ مَيْتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُThe dead person is the disbeliever, and the one whom Allah gave life is the one who submitted to Islam. So Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says: You do not make these two stubborn ones hear your call to Islam, and they do not accept it and do not benefit from it, just as the dead person in his grave does not benefit from the call to Islam. So this is in the category of drawing an analogy, in the category of drawing an analogy, and it is not in the category of denying that the dead person hears. The dead person hears, but it is a special hearing from the matters of the barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection); it is not like his hearing in this world. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
You do not measure the matters of the barzakh and the matters of the Hereafter by the matters of this world. Remove this from your minds. The matters of the Hereafter and the matters of the barzakh are from the knowledge of the unseen, which no one knows except Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. And we only believe in the texts as they came.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 25 من 36/شرح العقيدة الواسطية (مع الأسئلة)/الإيمان بفتنة القبر/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (53:14)
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