Funerals

I want to know if Islam allows for a bereaved family to slaughter an animal and Cook food to feed those who will come and visit them some days after the death of the person just as a charity

Funerals

11 Oct

ANSWER: Cooking food for mourners and gathering like this is prohibited.

Sheikh, After the ghusl of a deceased lady is given, when wrapping her body with the funeral cloth… should her hair be tied at the back or should it be left along on each side of her so it covers her chest.

Funerals

28 Sep

ANSWER: It should be braided into 3 braids; two on the sides and one on the middle and then all are thrown to her back.

Does the community offer Janaza prayer for someone who would be cremated? The family does not want burial as they insist that they would be fulfilling the request of their decease family member. What does the imam and the muslims of the community do in this case?

Funerals

31 Aug

ANSWER: As long as he is Muslim, the funeral prayer is his right. Insisting on being cremated is wrong and his family must not honor such a will or they would be sinful as well.

I just want to know that a female during her mensuration can give gusul to a ded female.(gusul to female janaza).

Funerals

20 Jun

ANSWER: No problem in this.

Regarding a question you answered on Twitter, for a woman praying the funeral prayer in the home, can you please provide the requirements to be fulfilled before the prayer? Such as is there a specific way/direction the deceased should be placed, where should she stand with respect to the body, where should she face (qibla or otherwise) etc.

Funerals

20 Jun

ANSWER: The corpse must be between her and the qibla and she should stand next to his head.

what I hv always seen in my family that if a person dies the family of the deceased order food called as bhati nd after the body is burried evry1 gathers and eat that food. It is basically made fr the people who comes from far off place to visit the funeral.some people don’t eat that food saying its bidah.is it right? How can a deceased family cook if they r sad?pls clarify

Funerals

12 Jun

ANSWER: This is actually a biddah. The people should send food for the mourning family to help them out in their calamity and it should not be the other way around where people come and feast!

Coming .. June will be ….years after my father’s demise and I want to give sadaqa on his behalf. Is it wrong if I decide to do it on the day he passed away or I should do it on another random day?

Funerals, Innovations

09 Jun

ANSWER: This would be an innovation to choose to commemorate it on the same day.

My grandmother passed away recently. If I recite Quran, will it benefit her? Also can I feed people or give charity on her behalf with my money, will it benefit her?

Funerals

07 Jun

ANSWER:

sheikh, is it true that the deceased is punished due to his family’s weeping for him?

Funerals

03 Jun

ANSWER: The deceased suffers from their weeping and wailing but this is not a punishment from Allah but rather a hardship he suffers from like the hardship one suffers when traveling.

When we wash the dead we should also make ghusl but if we wash for our alive person like our parents must we make ghusl

Funerals

28 May

ANSWER: It is not obligatory to make ghusl after washing dead bodies.

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