| Shouting at Dead People Whenever Islam achieves a significant victory over its adversaries it builds a mosque that seeks to both commemorate the occasion and dominate the site of its triumph. The mosque near ground zero, and ground zero itself will probably become part of a new pilgrimage for the believers. First a visit to the Mosque to pray, but not for the victims, as most of them did not believe in Allah and His Messenger. It is forbidden in the Koran to pray for the salvation of unbelievers. 9:80 Ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them. If you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, Allah will not forgive them; because they disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger. Allah does not guide the sinful people. 9:84 And do not ever pray over any one of them who dies, or be present at their grave; indeed they disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger, and died still ungodly. The visit to the Mosque would be followed by a short walk to ground zero to remember the devastation and death that a small and determined band of coreligionists wrought, and to remind the victims that they had it coming. After the famous Battle of Badr, where a small force of believers defeated a much larger force of unbelievers, the Muslim dead were given a proper burial and the dead unbelievers simply thrown down a well. The Prophet was seen shouting at the corpses in the well. This yelling at dead people left some of his followers perplexed, but God’s Messenger had an explanation: Narrated Ibn 'Umar: “The Prophet looked at the people of the well and said, ‘Have you found true what your Lord promised you?’ Somebody said to him, ‘You are addressing dead people.’ He replied, ‘You do not hear better than they but they cannot reply.’" ----------- Related: The Living Dead
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