It is supported by the statement in the same surah, which says: ".

It is supported by the statement in the same surah, which says: "... and We will raise him, on the day of resurrection, blind. He shall say: My Lord! Why hast Thou raised me blind, and I was a seeing one indeed? (Allah) will say: Even so; Our signs came to you, but you forgot them; even thus shall you be forsaken this day." (Surah Ta-ha, verse 124-126). Q.

111: TALKING WITH A DEAD PERSON: This concerns the tradition in Day of Judgement, describing the talk of Salman al-Farsi (R.A) with a dead person; Out of my understanding of hadith and al-Qur 'an, Allah (S. W.T) says in 35:22: And you cannot make those hear who are in the graves. A: At present, I leave the question of authenticity or otherwise of the said tradition aside, because I do not have necessary books here in Toronto.

Here only the meaning of the said 'ayah will be explained: (a) Theverseisapartofaspeechwhichsays: "And the blind and the seeing are not alike; nor the darkness and the light; nor the shade and the heat; neither are the living and the dead alike. Surely Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear who are in the graves.

You are naught but a Warner......" (35:19-23) All these similitudes have been brought for Mu 'min (the seeing, the light, the shade, the living) and Kafir (the blind, the darkness, the heat, the dead) and last sentence emphasizes it by saying that Allah makes whom He pleases hear. Suppose a Mu'min was first a mayyit (dead) i.e. unbeliever; Allah gave him life (i.e. Iman) and made him hear the word of truth.

As He says in 6:122, "Is he who was dead then we raised him to life and made for him a light by which he walks among the people, like him whose likeness is that of one in utter darkness..." The Prophet (S.A.W) is a medium of the guidance but the guidance is of Allah alone. Then He Says pointing to the opposite group: you cannot make those hear who are Kafirs, (are in the graves), whose hearts are sealed. Your responsibility is only to warn them.

So you see that this statement has no relevance to our subject. (b) Even if it were not a similitude, it does not go against the said hadith. The hadith does not claim that it was Salman (R.A) who made the dead body talk. It was Allah who knew when Salman (R. A) was going to die and it was Allah who made the mayyit talk. (c) The episode after the battle of Badr is accepted by all Muslim sects. I am quoting it from Sahih al-Bukhari: "Abu Talha narrated: On the day of Badr, the Prophet (S.A.