{"id":6333,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/does-the-prophet-listen-to-us\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:21:12","slug":"does-the-prophet-listen-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/does-the-prophet-listen-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Does The Prophet Listen To Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Allah  Almighty says to the Prophet (sws) that he will also leave this world  as the previous prophets did. A h\u0323ad\u012bth is very commonly known that  Prophet said a Muslim must visit his grave to say <em>asslamaulaikum<\/em>  when he comes for Haj or umrah. If this narrative is authentic, then  don&#8217;t you think it is in contradiction of the verse I have referred to  above? <\/p>\n<div>Secondly a <em>firqah<\/em> amongst Muslim strongly believes in intercession through <em>awliya<\/em>  Allah who are dead and probably their argument is based on what I have  written above. I may clarify here that I am not interested in going into  any sort of argument with believers in intercession, just want to know  the truth:<\/div>\n<div>(1) saying assalamu alaikum to the Prophet (sws) which he listens and <\/div>\n<p>(2) on what basis we can connect the similar listening of assalamu alaikum by awliya Allah?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The  salutation we make to the Prophet (sws) and also to any dead lying in  grave is not taken literally. When we visit the graves we address the  dead. This does not mean that they listen to us. These are only our good  feelings and our prayers for them. Salam and greeting is in fact a sort  of prayer. If accepted it can benefit the dead in their afterlife. <\/p>\n<p>As  for the belief of those who claim that the Prophet (sws) is alive or  the saints are alive and listen to us and intercede with God on our  behalf it is alien to Islam. For detail please refer to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.javedghamidi.net\/index.php\/questions\/view\/can-dead-sufi-saints-hear-the-calls-of-the-living-devotees\">http:\/\/www.al-mawrid.org\/pages\/questions_english_detail.php?qid=110&#038;cid=51<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.javedghamidi.net\/index.php\/questions\/view\/did-prophet-sws-have-the-knowledge-of-the-unseen\">http:\/\/www.al-mawrid.org\/pages\/questions_english_detail.php?qid=1156&#038;cid=515&#038;search=alien<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-17<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6333\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allah  Almighty says to the Prophet (sws) that he will also leave this world  as the previous prophets did. A h\u0323ad\u012bth is very commonly known that  Prophet said a Muslim must visit his grave to say <em>asslamaulaikum<\/em>  when he comes for Haj or umrah. If this narrative is authentic, then  don&#8217;t you think it is in contradiction of the verse I have referred to  above? <\/p>\n<div>Secondly a <em>firqah<\/em> amongst Muslim strongly believes in intercession through <em>awliya<\/em>  Allah who are dead and probably their argument is based on what I have  written above. I may clarify here that I am not interested in going into  any sort of argument with believers in intercession, just want to know  the truth:<\/div>\n<div>(1) saying assalamu alaikum to the Prophet (sws) which he listens and <\/div>\n<p>(2) on what basis we can connect the similar listening of assalamu alaikum by awliya Allah?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1265],"tags":[2138,1901,1667,1509,2163],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-and-beliefs","tag-awliya","tag-saint","tag-salutation","tag-sufism","tag-wseela"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Does The Prophet Listen To Us? - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/does-the-prophet-listen-to-us\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Does The Prophet Listen To Us? - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Allah Almighty says to the Prophet (sws) that he will also leave this world as the previous prophets did. 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