Combining the verse regarding the hearing of the dead with the hearing of the deceased
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The questioner:
and other matters. It is possible that Allah the Exalted said that the dead do not speak in the lower realm, and that supplication is only for what...
The Shaykh:
There is no contradiction between the verse and the hadith, praise be to Allah, because the intended meaning is that the dead are not made to hear the call to Islam; the call to Islam does not benefit the deceased. This is from the category of using an analogy. The disbeliever who was stubborn is like a dead person, or one who was dead and then we brought him to life. The dead one is the disbeliever, and the one whom Allah brought to life is the one who embraced Islam.
Allah, Glorified and Exalted, says: You do not make these two groups hear your call to Islam, nor do they accept it or benefit from it, just as the one in his grave does not benefit from the call to Islam. This is from the category of striking an analogy, the category of analogy.
It is not from the category of denying that the dead hear. The dead do hear, but it is a specific type of hearing, from the matters of the barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection). So it is a hearing in this world, yes.
and other matters. It is possible that Allah the Exalted said that the dead do not speak in the lower realm, and that supplication is only for what...
The Shaykh:
There is no contradiction between the verse and the hadith, praise be to Allah, because the intended meaning is that the dead are not made to hear the call to Islam; the call to Islam does not benefit the deceased. This is from the category of using an analogy. The disbeliever who was stubborn is like a dead person, or one who was dead and then we brought him to life. The dead one is the disbeliever, and the one whom Allah brought to life is the one who embraced Islam.
Allah, Glorified and Exalted, says: You do not make these two groups hear your call to Islam, nor do they accept it or benefit from it, just as the one in his grave does not benefit from the call to Islam. This is from the category of striking an analogy, the category of analogy.
It is not from the category of denying that the dead hear. The dead do hear, but it is a specific type of hearing, from the matters of the barzakh (the interval between death and resurrection). So it is a hearing in this world, yes.
Source
شرح العقيدة الواسطية [ صالح الفوزان ] [ الشرح القديم ]، الإيمان بما بعد الموت — islamhouse.com (1:10:06)
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