Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 501
UNDATED 501 UNDATED Spiritual Reward Reaching the Dead A person asked whether spiritual reward for feeding others reaches the dead or not. Then he began to detail various items and asked whether their blessings reached the dead or not. The Promised Messiah, peace and blessing be upon him, said: The spiritual reward of feeding others reaches them with the condition that the food is attained through lawful means. The way they recite the Holy Quran in reading circles is not proven from the Sunnah. The mullahs have established these customs to generate income for themselves. However, if God desires, a supplication is accepted even for the dead. But keep in mind that it is better to give even a paisa with your own hand than for someone else to spend a large amount on your behalf. Allah the Exalted has power over everything, He knows inten- tions and He is the One who grants spiritual reward. When it is proven that blessings reach even the dead, then what is the need for specifics? A son of a Companion ra used to supplicate, ‘O Allah! Grant me Paradise, and give me pomegranates and grapes. ’ The Companion ra said, ‘When Paradise is attained then pomegran- ates and grapes are part of it. What need is there for specifics?’ There cannot be specifics of the Hereafter; that is a hidden and undisclosed world.