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wherever we like.” Their Lord asked them the same question
thrice. When they saw that they would be continued to be asked
and not left (without answering the question), they said: “O
Lord, we wish that You may return our souls to our bodies so
that we may be slain in Your cause once again. When He (Allah)
saw that they had no need, they were left (to their joy in
Heaven).” 302
Thus, a complete study of the Qur’aan and the Sunnah concludes
that it is neither possible, nor proven that souls of the dead return
to the world of the living, meet with people or converse with
them.
The Deobandis support the Theory of the Soul’s
Return
Mufti Abdur Rahim Lajpuri, a prominent Deobandi scholar, says
in Fatawa Rahimiyyah, “The soul can and does come. Events and
observations bear witness to this fact.” 303
From Kitabul Janaiz, “The belief that the Ruh (soul) of the mayyit
(dead) remains in the house or visits the house for forty days is
baseless. While it is possible for the Ruh to visit any place with the
permission of Allah, the belief that it does in fact visit the home
on specific days is not correct.” 304
Another popular book, “What happens after death?” mentions
many such incidences and has in it a chapter named, “The dead
spoke after death.” 305
302 Saheeh Muslim no.4651, Sunan at-Tirmidhee no.1631 and others.
303 Fatawa Rahimiyyah (Eng. Trans.) vol. 2, p.252, Question no. 355.
304 Kitabul Janaiz (Hanafee), p.36 by Majlis-Ulema, the pro-Deobandi
lobby of South Africa.
305 ‘What happens after death?’ by Ahmad Sa’eed Dehlavi, published
by Saeed international, part.1, pg.96.
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