28. The Living Ones - Surah Faatir (35): Verse 22

وَمَا يَسْتَوِي الْأَحْيَاءُ وَلَا الْأَمْوَاتُ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُسْمِعُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۖ وَمَا أَنْتَ بِمُسْمِعٍ مَنْ فِي الْقُبُورِ {22}

“Neither are the living and the dead alike. Surely Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear who are m the graves.”

As per traditions living refers to Ali (a.s.), Hamza (a.s.), Jafar (a.s.), Hasan (a.s.), Husain (a.s.), Janabe Fatima (s.a.) and Janabe Khadija (s.a.) and dead refers to the polytheists of Mecca. ¹

Footnotes

1. Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an, Vol. 4, Page 544 ↩