Kitab Ar Rooh- The Book of The Soul

In The Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful,

Kitab Ar Rooh- The Book of The Soul

The Third Case - IT IS , DO THE SOULS OF THE LIVING MEET WITH THE SOULS OF THE DEAD, OR NOT?


The examples on this case and its evidences are greater than to be counted except by Allah (The Exalted). The sense and the reality are of the justiest of the witnesses in it. That the souls of the living and the dead meet as the souls of the living meet. And He (The Exalted) had said: ” Allah that takes the souls of men at death and those that die not be taken during their sleep: Those to whom He has passed the decree of death. He keeps back from returning to life, but the rest He sends to their bodies for a term appointed, verily in this are signs for those who reflect.” (39:42)

Abu Abdullah bin Minda said: On the autority of the son of Abbas, in this verse, he said: It reached me that the souls of the living and the dead meet in the dream. They ask amongst them, and Allah (The Exalted) grasps the souls of the dead people, and He sends the souls of the living to its bodies.


The son of Abu Hatem said in his interpretation: On the authority of As-Sadi, in His saying (The Exalted): „ And those that die not he takes during their sleep.” He said: He comes to it in the dream, and the soul of the living meet with the soul of the dead and they confer and acquaint. He said: Then the soul of the living comes to his body in the world to the remaining fate, and the soul of the dead intends to return to its body and it is imprisoned.

And this is one of the two saying in the verse. It is that the holding is that which died at the very beginning, and the sent is that which died at the death of the sleep. The meaning as to this saying is that one makes the soul of the dead to die, and he grasps it, and not to send it to its body before the Judgement Day, and He (The Exalted) makes the soul of the sleeping to die and sends it to its body till the remaining of its fate, and makes it die the other death.

And the second saying in the verse that the held and the sent in the verse, both of them died, the sleep death. That which completed its fate, he holds it with him, and doesnot return it in to its body, and that which didnot complete its fate, he returns it to its body, to complete it. The Sheikh of Islam had chosen this saying. He said: The Quran and Tradition had denoted on it. He said: He, Glory be to Him, had mentioned the holding, which the death had judged in, of these souls which he made to die the sleep death. But that which he made die at its death, is that which he didnot describe with holding or with a sent, but it is a third part.

That which overweights is the first saying, because He, Glory be to Him, knows better about the two deaths. A major death, and it is the death dying, and a minor death, which is the sleep death. And He divided the souls into two parts: A part which He judged in, with the death and He held it with Him, and it is which He made to die the death dying, and a part for it the remaining fate, and He made it return to its body to complete its fate. And He, Glory be to Him, had made the holding and the sending as two judgement for the two mentioned deaths. First, it is holding, and it is sent. And He told that which didnot die is that which He made to die in its sleep. That if He were to divide the sleep death into two parts, a death dying and a sleep dying, He would not have said: ”And those that die not He takes during their sleep.” It is dead from time it is grasped, and He says after that: ”Those on whom he has passed the decree of death.”

-to be continued, inshaAllah-