Funerals

QUESTION: Sheikh, I heard it somehwere that if we die in Madinah it is a good thing. Is this true?

17 Aug

ANSWER: Yes. https://islamqa.info/en/answers/146927/is-there-any-special-virtue-in-dying-and-being-buried-in-makkah-or-madinah

QUESTION: If you miss the first section of the jannazah can you catch up and how can you catch up?

Funerals

16 Aug

ANSWER: You follow the order as whenever you join the congregation would be your first. After the imam offers Salam, continue to make up the missed takbeers.

QUESTION: With regards to placing a deceased person in their grave, should the deceased’s face be turned to the right to face the Qibla?

Funerals

01 Aug

ANSWER: The sunnah is to place the deceased on his right hand side facing the qibla. https://islamqa.info/en/answers/7076/should-the-deceased-be-turned-to-face-the-qiblah-when-he-dies

QUESTION: Here in my native place, kerala, while praying janazah , here they end tasleem to both sides. Should i stop after 1st tasleem with imam or should i do as what imam does?

Funerals, Prayer

28 Jul

ANSWER: The sunnah is to offer only one tasleem to the right. However, if you followed the imam and gave two, this is permissible and if you only offered one, this is also permissible.

QUESTION: There are times when someone is feeling the pangs of death and they’re no longer responsive for many days before they die, but they’re still alive. Some have told me that they can no longer speak because the person has now seen the angels. Is it true that someone can see the angels for many days before their death?

Belief in the Angels, Funerals

08 Jul

ANSWER: No, they see the angel of death at the time of their death only.

QUESTION: Is it true that a few moments before our death shaytan comes with his final try to us in the form of someone who passed away and says that he found Islam not to be the truth? If this is true, does every Muslim face this fitna?

Funerals

23 Jun

ANSWER: There is nothing to support this from the quran or Sunnah.

QUESTION: Can suicide be forgiven even if the person did it for another persons benefit or if the person was totally helpless . I read somewhere that if youre a Muslim and you ask for repentance before committing suicide youll be punished by Allah for sometime in hell and then be sent to heaven.

Funerals, Psychological Problems

18 Jun

ANSWER: This is in Allah’s hands. As long as the individual had died a Muslim, his fate is with Allah; if He wills it, He will forgive him. Otherwise, he will punish him in hell for sometime but eventually, he will be admitted to paradise.

QUESTION: Is it shirk to keep the soft copy of the photo of a deceased on a phone or PC? If a person doesn’t talk to it or address it, will it be considered as shirk? What about storing old photos or old things as memory?

Funerals, Images and image-making

23 May

ANSWER: This is not shirk. It is prohibited and sinful though.

QUESTION: I heard somewhere that when you are in your grave you will be able to hear the people in their graves screaming next to you because they might be getting the punishment in their graves, so I wanted to confirm that is it true or not?

Funerals, Punishments

18 May

ANSWER: This is baseless.

QUESTION: My uncle recently died because of liver cancer. It seems to us that he didnt pray almost at all. A few days before his death, he was told to accept that what he did was wrong and to repent, and he did so alhamdulillah. After that he suffered terribly due to brutal pain, thus he didnt start praying during his last days. Is his repentance still valid? Is he considered a martyr?

Funerals, Prayer

29 Apr

ANSWER: This is in Allah’s hands. We judge with what is apparent and only Allah knows and decides people’s fate. All you can do now is pray for his forgiveness.

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