Funerals

Are candle light vigils permissible for Muslims who have passed away? How should we advise Muslims that indulge in such activities?

Funerals, Halal/Haram Matters, Religions

07 Jan

ANSWER: This is not permissible at all as it’s imitating the disbelievers which Prophet salla allahu alaihi wa sallam forbade.

My father passed away, please make dua for him. Most of his life my father did not pray, nor fasted nor paid zakah and accumulated interest on his wealth. Now what should we do as his inheritors first? Will the wealth inherited be halal for us if Zakah and interest is not taken out? How shall we compensate for his fasts? The calcuation of 40 years is hard.

Fiqh of the family, Funerals, Inheritance

07 Jan

ANSWER: The inheritance is halal for you all as the haram money is only haram for the person earning it and not for anyone else. If he had not fasted deliberately without any valid reason then you must not fast these on his behalf.

Can we place inscriptions of marble with details of the deceased and quran ayah in the graveyard? Is it prohibited in islam? Kindly explain

Funerals, Halal/Haram Matters

05 Jan

ANSWER: No problem in having a headstone with deceased’s name for identifying the grave but it’s totally prohibited to inscribe or write ayahs of Quran on the stone or to decorate it or to make it like the christians have it. It should only be placed for identification.

Does angel of death visits a person five times a day ??

Funerals

05 Jan

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and not true at all!

My Question is that Allah has made such a beautiful relationship between husband and wife then why at the death of either husband or wife it is not permissible to see either of them because it is one of the hardest times for either of them So why at that time it becomes Na-Mahram??..

Funerals

01 Jan

ANSWER: What you have stated is absolutely baseless and fabricated and i believe only the people in the subcontinent do this! Husband and wife do not become non mahram after one of them dies. They can not only see the dead body, in fact the spouse can even give ghusl to the deceased spouse!

We know that malakul mauth captures everyone’s soul. However, there are thousands of death that takes place in a single second. How can this ONE malakul mauth captures everyone’s soul in that very second. When i asked my uncle regarding this, he told that for every human, Allah has assigned one malakul mauth, just like the angels in our right and left shoulders. Please clarify if this is correct.

Belief in the Angels, Funerals

29 Dec

ANSWER: Your question doesn’t make any sense! Where did you get that the angel of death is like us and he travels by plane or needs a car to commute? Have you ever seen an angel before or know what they are capable of doing? There is only one angel of death and you must […]

Sheikh, do we have to read sana during janaza salat (Funeral prayer)

Funerals, Prayer

16 Dec

ANSWER: The opening dua is not prescribed during funeral prayer.

When someone dies in our area, they don’t cook food in that particular house (in that house where the death took place). The other people of the village provide them food and cooked vegetables on that day to serve the people who came for funeral. They believe something due to which they don’t cook food on that day. Is this belief correct?

Funerals

23 Nov

ANSWER: It is the sunnah that people send the family of the deceased food so that they don’t cook while in their grief. This food should be for the family of the deceased and not for guests and other mourners.

If you pray for dead people, will they know that you particularly – prayed for them?

Funerals

05 Oct

ANSWER: There is no authentic evidence to prove that they know.

My father died due to covid at night of his death he told us to take him to somewhere else otherwise he said that we were killing him but we didn’t act upon his last wish as we thought the hospital which he was in was safe but now his statement is haunting user are feeling guilty what should we do

Fiqh of the family, Funerals

13 Sep

ANSWER: These feelings are from Satan to depress and sadden you. His death was predestined, like everything else, 50 thousand years before the creation of the heavens and the earth so do not pay any attention to this and make a lot of dua for his forgiveness and maghfirah.

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