In a book called ‘Raudh’ is a story of a pious lady known as Bahitah, who was too regular in her prayers. At the time of her death she raised her head towards heaven & exclaimed, “O, the One, who is my only Treasure & Provider for life & death; I pray, do not disgrace me at the moment of death & save me from the horrors of the grave!” After her death, her son made it a practice to visit her grave every Friday & read the Qur’an there, offering the blessings for his mother, as well as for all those buried in the graveyard.
One day, he saw his mother in a dream & asked her, how she was. The mother replied, “The severity of death is extremely harsh. By the grace of Allah Ta’ala, I am most comfortable in the grave with a bed of sweet basil & silken cushions. And the treatment given to me will last till Qiamah.” The son asked her if he could be of any service to her. She said, “Do not give up coming to me on Fridays & reading the Qur’an. On your arrival all the dwellers of the graveyard come to me & tell me that you have arrived. Your visit to the graveyard is a source of great pleasure for me.” The boy said that he visited the place regularly on Fridays.
One day he saw in a dream that a very big gathering of men & women came to him & he asked them who they were? They said, they were the dwellers of such & such graveyard & they had come to thank him for his Friday visits to them & his prayers for their forgiveness by Allah Ta’ala that pleased them most. They requested him to keep up that practice, which he continued most carefully.
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Another learned dignitary relates that a person saw in his dream that all the graves in a graveyard opened up suddenly & the dead came out of them & started picking up something from the ground, except one person who kept sitting & was quiet. The dreamer approached him & asked what the others were picking, to which he replied that they were picking up the blessings of Sadaqah, Du’a & Darood, which the living people had offered for the dwellers of this graveyard. The dreamer asked him why he was not picking up anything. The dead person replied that he was happy without picking up anything, as he had a young son who had the business of selling sweetmeats in such & such bazaar & who daily read the whole Qur’an & sent him its blessings. The man went to the bazaar in the morning & saw a young man selling sweets while his lips were moving. The man asked him what he was reading. The young man replied that he daily recited the whole of the Qur’an & offered its blessings as a present to his deceased father.
The person who had the dream, again saw the same vision after some time, & noticed that the person with whom he had talked was also picking up something along with others, whereupon the man woke up surprised! In the morning he went to the same bazaar & came to know that the young man was dead. (Raudh).
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My baba, after listening to the above true incidents (2 months ago) gave away a very huge amount of Sadaqa in Islamabad for his parents, i.e. for construction of a Masjid & a religious school for orphans/ poor people. Few days ago, I saw a beautiful dream near Ka'aba, which when I shared with a Mufti, he said that ALLAH has rewarded a lot to your grand parents (in return of the sadaqa given by my parents).
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JazakAllah khair, we all need each other's prayers. Another incident from the same book.
Saleh Muree Rahmatullah alaihe has related that once on a Friday night, well before dawn, he left his home to offer morning prayers at the Jamia Masjid, and came across a graveyard where he sat down beside a grave (as it was too early for Salaat), and dozed off. He saw in his dream that all the graves had opened up and the dead came out. They were all happily and cheerfully talking to each other and among them was a young man with soiled clothes looking gloomy, who sat away from the others.
After a short while, a large number of angels descended from the sky carrying trays covered with glittering napkins. They handed a tray to each person who returned to his grave with the tray. When all had gone, the lonely person also got up to enter his grave but without a tray. The dreaming gentleman approached him and asked him why he was so gloomy and what those trays were. He replied that the trays contained the presents which the living people had sent to their dead. As for him, he had no one living except his mother to send him anything, but she had remarried and was too busy with her husband and never thought of him. On enquiry, the dead son gave him the address of his mother. Next morning, Saleh went to the young man’s mother and told her about his dream.
The woman said, indeed, the young man was her son and most dear to her, and she had carried him in her lap. The woman then gave Saleh one thousand Dirhams and requested him to give that money as Sadaqah for her son who indeed was the coolness of her eyes, and she promised never to forget to pray for him and give Sadaqah for his sake. Saleh Rahmathullah alaihe further said that he once again had the same dream with the same gathering of people in the graveyard. This time the young man was wearing very good clothes and looked very happy. He came running to him and said, "May Allah Ta’ala bless you immensely. Your present has reached me." (Raudh).
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mashAllah! great post! We should remember to pray for all who have passed away and not only our own family members. May Allah grant them all eternal peace and raise their ranks in Jannah. Amen!