Does the deceased feel the visit of people to him?
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The questioner : Does the deceased feel, for example, the visit of his family?
The Shaykh : Absolutely not. He has no such feeling and no knowledge of the visitor to the visited.
The questioner : I mean, does his supplication not reach him immediately, at the same time?
The Shaykh : If the supplication is accepted, it reaches Allah, and He responds to it; as for the deceased, he does not feel it. But if we suppose, for example, that the deceased was being punished and the punishment was lifted from him, either entirely or partially, due to the supplication of a righteous man, then he feels the difference between the punishment he was in and the absence of the punishment, either entirely or partially. But he does not know the reason. Do you understand me?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Absolutely not. He has no such feeling and no knowledge of the visitor to the visited.
The questioner : I mean, does his supplication not reach him immediately, at the same time?
The Shaykh : If the supplication is accepted, it reaches Allah, and He responds to it; as for the deceased, he does not feel it. But if we suppose, for example, that the deceased was being punished and the punishment was lifted from him, either entirely or partially, due to the supplication of a righteous man, then he feels the difference between the punishment he was in and the absence of the punishment, either entirely or partially. But he does not know the reason. Do you understand me?
The questioner: Yes.
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