Re: A question from a Bralvi person, how come Martys are alive and Prophets are not?
For all those who think beleiving that prophet is alive is shirk, I ask them can they explain these ahadiths from Bukhari and Muslim, is this shirk as well? God having a physical being.
SAHI BUKHARI
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 530: *
Narrated Jarir bin 'Abdullah: The Prophet said, "You will definitely see your Lord* with your own eyes."
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 532: *
Narrated Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri:We said, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall we see our Lord on the Day of Resurrection?" He said, "Do you have any difficulty in seeing the sun and the moon when the sky is clear?" We said, "No." He said, "So you will have no difficulty in seeing your Lord on that Day as you have no difficulty in seeing the sun and the moon (in a clear sky)." The Prophet then said...............Then the Almighty will come to them in a shape other than the one which they saw the first* time, and He will say, 'I am your Lord,' and they will say, 'You are not our Lord.' And none will speak: to Him then but the Prophets, and then it will be said to them, 'Do you know any sign by which you can recognize Him?' They will say. 'The Shin,' and so Allah will then uncover His Shin whereupon every believer will prostrate ..........
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 510: *
Narrated 'Abdullah:
A Jew came to the Prophet and said, "O Muhammad! Allah will hold the heavens on a Finger, and the mountains on a Finger, and the trees on a Finger, and all the creation on a Finger, and then He will say, 'I am the King*.' " On that Allah's Apostle smiled till his premolar teeth became visible, and then recited:--
'No just estimate have they made of Allah such as due to him....(39.67) 'Abdullah added: Allah's Apostle smiled (at the Jew's statement) expressing his wonder and believe in what was said.
Volume 9, Book 93, Number 586: *
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "Every night when it is the last third of the night, **our Lord, the Superior, the Blessed, descends to the nearest heaven and says*: Is there anyone to invoke Me that I may respond to his invocation? Is there anyone to ask Me so that I may grant him his request? Is there anyone asking My forgiveness so that I may forgive him?. "
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 770: *
Narrated Abu Huraira: The people said, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall we see our Lord on the Day of Resurrection?" He replied, .............................So Allah will laugh* and allow him to enter Paradise and will ask him to request as much as he likes. He will do so till all his desires have been fulfilled .
SAHI MUSLIM
Book 040, Number 6809: *
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:* Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created Adam in His own image with His length of sixty cubits**, and as He created him He told him to greet that group, and that was a party of angels sitting there, and listen to the response that they give him, for it would form his greeting and that of his offspring. He then went away and said: Peace be upon you! They (the angels) said: May there be peace upon you and the Mercy of Allah, and they made an addition of" Mercy of Allah". So he who would get into Paradise would get in the form of Adarn, his length being sixty cubits, then the people who followed him continued to diminish in size up to this day.
Is this shirk or not? Is this called tawheed??