Study of the Wahhabites arguments for detachment of action after death

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 دانش‌آموخته حوزه علمیه قم، کارشناسی ارشد شیعه‌شناسی، پژوهشگر مؤسسه دارالإعلام لمدرسة اهل البیت
2 دانشیار دانشگاه ادیان و مذاهب.
Abstract
Death has been considered as the end of human action in the Wahhabites viewpoint, so they negate any sorts of request for actions such as praying or answering the requests done by the dead, even if the dead one is The Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), the best of all creation. They have put forward arguments to support their claim; one of the frequent arguments is the prophetic narration about the detachment of all actions after death. However this reading of the narration which denies all kinds of actions after death is refutable based on arguments from narrations such as, narrations of prophets prayer at the graves, returning of greetings, presenting of the deeds, which are acceptable by Wahhabites themselves. To solve these apparent contradictions we can say: After our death the rewarding of our actions is ceased not the action themselves. It is not true to think that no action is done by the dead. We are alive after death, and all the living can be doer of action but these actions have no reward.
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