What is the answer to the evidence that affirms the dead hear, which the grave-worshippers have relied upon?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is the answer to the evidence that affirms the dead hear, which the grave-worshippers have relied upon?
Answer:
And if[Fatir 35:14] Allah said [Fatir 35:14] if so, then there is no benefit in their supplication, and they do not respond. But these people take a part of the verse or the hadith and leave the rest; they take what is for them and leave what is upon them. This is the habit of the people of misguidance, as Allah the Exalted said: [Ali 'Imran 3:7] They take what is good for them in their opinion, and leave what contradicts them. And they leave what clarifies what they took from the general or ambiguous; they leave it. This is the method of the people of deviation.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is the answer to the evidence that affirms the dead hear, which the grave-worshippers have relied upon?
Answer:
And if
they do not hear your supplication; and if they heard, they would not respond to you
يَسْمَعُوا دُعَاءَكُمْ وَلَوْ سَمِعُوا مَا اسْتَجَابُوا لَكُمْand if they heard, they would not respond to you
وَلَوْ سَمِعُوا مَا اسْتَجَابُوا لَكُمْAs for those in whose hearts is deviation [from truth], they will follow that of it which is unspecific
فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ زَيْغٌ فَيَتَّبِعُونَ مَا تَشَابَهَ مِنْهُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [424 -939] ما الجواب عن الأدلة التي فيها إثبات أن الموت يسمعون، وقد استمسك بها القبوريون؟ — youtube.com
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