Salafi are using this waqiah to confuse people. Please shed some light on this incident and other stories of Awlya Allah? Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi’s Grandfather comes back after Death! A strange incident is mentioned in Ashraf-us-Sawaneh (biography of Ashraf Ali Thanvi) about the great-grandfather of Ashraf Ali Thanvi, Muhammad Fareed. He was accompanying a marriage procession when it was attacked by a band of thieves. Muhammad Fareed died defending the procession and was buried near the tomb of Pir Samauddin. An urs (festival) was held at his grave for many years. The biographer writes, “After his martyrdom a strange incident occurred. At night, he returned to his home as if he was alive and gave some sweets to his family members saying, ‘If you do not tell (about my visit) to anyone, I shall keep coming this way.’ But the family members feared that the people may suspect something wrong when they see the children eating sweets, so they disclosed the incident and after this he did not return.”[1] ——————————————————————————– [1] Ashraf-us-Sawaneh, vol.1, p.12.
For the spirit of believers to come into this worldly life phenomenally is possible and it’s not from the impossibilities and there is no clash with the sacred law. The spirits of non- believers are confined. There are some feasibilities like this granted to the souls of believers. And there are many miraculous stories like this mentioned as ‘karamah’ and ‘karamah’ is true and there is nothing inconsistent with the sacred law in that. Ashrafus sawanih is a good book.
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