Sweet Smelling Grave

Once a brother from Karachi sent a letter to Sag-e-Madina Ameer-e-Dawat-e-Islami Ameer-e-AhleSunnat Hazrat’e Allama Moulana Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri (damat barakatahum-mul aaliya). 

The brother wrote something like the following: “One day, I went to the North Karachi graveyard at exactly noon to pray Fatiha for the deceased. 

I got this feeling that from somewhere in the graveyard, there was a beautiful fragrant smell.  I had never smelt such a beautiful fragrance ever in my whole life.

  I really concentrated on this smell and found out that the smell was coming from a particular grave, upon which, even at noon, there was a shadow covering it. 

The surprising fact was that there was no one or nothing that could have caused a shadow to emerge on top of the grave.  The next day, I took some of my friends to the graveyard. 

All of them saw the shadow and smelt the fragrance.  I found out the address of the deceased from the gravedigger and went to the house where the deceased used to live. 

When I got there, I asked his wife what his actions were during his lifetime. 

After a long thought she said that very often, he used to say: ‘bismillahir-rahman-nir-raheemi wa sallallahu ala Muhammad’. 

It became clear that most likely, this action came to be of use for the deceased.”