Can souls of our dead relatives come around us?
Human’s compound is made of soul and body. Soul, uses the body as its home. When he or she sleeps, it leaves the body and when he or she wakes up , it returns to the body. Dead person’s body is like wreckage of a house; the soul can not return to it until it is recreated. As this verse explains:
“Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that die not during their sleep; then He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others back for an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this for people who reflect.” (Az-Zumar/ The Companies 39:42)
Sleeping and dying are the functions of body. Soul does not die or sleep. It is mentioned in Holy Qur’an that the soul will give a speech after it leaves its dead body behind:
“Until when death overtakes one of them, he says: Send me back, my Lord, send me back; Haply I may do good in that which I have left. By no means! it is a (mere) word that he speaks; and before them is a barrier until the day they are raised.” (Al- Mu’minoon/ The Believers 23:99-100)
There is no statement about the souls returning to this world or visiting us in these verses. Allah clearly expresses that He retains dead people’s souls and sets a barrier between them and this world to prevent them from returning.
