: The concept that souls of the living and the deceased can meet during sleep (dreams) or in the afterlife. Finding an English PDF
A critical chapter. Ibn Qayyim concludes that the deceased know when someone visits them or prays for them, based on hadith where the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Whenever a person passes by the grave of his believing brother whom he knew in the world, and he greets him, the deceased recognizes him and returns the greeting." Kitab Ar-ruh English Pdf
In the vast ocean of Islamic literature, few books dive as deep, or as hauntingly, into the unseen world as Imam Ibn al-Qayyim’s Kitab ar-Ruh . Written over 700 years ago, this text remains one of the most definitive works on what happens to the soul after death. : The concept that souls of the living