Do the dead hear the salam of the visitors?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, he says: Do the dead hear those who greet them with salam?

Answer:
Allah knows best regarding that. The graves and the state of the grave are matters of the Hereafter and of the unseen, and we do not speak about them except with valid evidence from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger. However, it is prescribed for us to visit the graves, to greet the deceased Muslims with salam, and to make du'a for them. This benefits them, by the permission of Allah. Making du'a for the dead benefits them. The visit to the graves, in which the visitor feels the nearness of death and remembers death, is what we have been commanded to do. As for whether they hear or do not hear, we have no certainty about that. Whether they hear or do not hear, we have no certainty about that. We act according to what has been prescribed for us and what we have been commanded to do. Yes.

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