Late Hajj Motamid narrated:

One day I was present in Takiya Shah Dai Ilalaah for reciting mourning poems in Majl is gathering. Since there was slush in streets due to rain and snow, I passed through Dar us-Salam Cemetery of Shiraz and after the program ended, I returned the same way.

At night I saw Aga Sayyid Mirza, alias Sultan, son of Hajj Sayyid Ali Akbar Faal Asecri in dream. He said: Motamid, today you passed by our house and saw it in a dilapidated condition, but you did not repair it. When I awoke, I was not at all aware that. in wh ich graveyard the grave of the late gentleman was.

I went to the caretaker of the cemetery, Shaykh Hasan and asked if t he grave of Aga Sayyid Mirza was in that same graveyard. He replied: Yes, it is there and he came along and pointed it out to me. I saw that it was exactly on the route I had taken the day before, and has broken down and was flattened due to rain and snow. I gave some money to the caretaker to repair it.

Through these incidents and thousands of others like them it is easily learnt that after death man is not destroyed, even though his body might have decayed under the ground, but his soul remains in the world of Purgatory (Barzakh) and is aware of the circumstances of this world.

This point is clarified in the Holy Qur’an and traditions as well. It is mentioned in Bihar ul-Anwar, Vol. 2, Pg. 141 that the Messenger of Allah (S) addressed the killed infidels in the Battle of Badr: You had been very bad neighbors of the Messenger of Allah. You drove him out and after that got together to fight a battle. Indeed you have received that, which the truthful Lord had promised you. That is death in the world and after that divine chastisement.

Umar asked: How are you talking to people who are dead (because they cannot hear)? His Eminence (S) said: Keep quiet, O son of Khattab, by Allah, you are not as capable of hearing as them and there is no distance between them and the angels who are to chastise them, except that I should tum away from them.

It is also narrated that after the conclusion of the Battle of Jamal and after the victory of Amir ul-Mu’minin ('a), the Imam was passing through the killed, till he came to the body of Kaab bin Soor, who was a Qadi of Basra authorized by Umar and Uthman; and he had come with his sons and relatives to fight against Amir ul-Mu’minin ('a). All of them were killed.

Thus, by the orders of Imam he was made to sit and the Imam said: O Kaab, you reached the position, which the truthful Lord promised you (death of the world and chastisement of hereafter). After that he was made to lie down again. Then he walked a while and came to the corpse of Talha. He was made to sit on his command and told the same thing. A companion of His Eminence asked: What is the meaning of your conversation with two corpses, while they don't hear anything? He replied: By Allah, they have heard what I said, like the idolater killed in Badr heard the statement of the Prophet.