Funerals

QUESTION: How can one smell musk from dead body? One smell like a rat

Funerals

17 Dec

ANSWER: Sometimes, Allah may send such nice fragrance as a comfort for the families of such deceased that their ending was good and that they must remain steadfast on their beliefs and hold their grounds.

QUESTION: Is it better to have a funeral prayer with several rows even if the rows are not filled?

Funerals, Prayer

16 Dec

ANSWER: Yes. The rows don’t have to be filled and the virtue in having more rows is better.

QUESTION: During funeral Bath, in India many muslims here put sandalwood powder and attar on the dead body after giving them a bath and in the bath water they add rose water too. Ik this might be a biddah but does this invalids the bath? Pls answer

Funerals

20 Oct

ANSWER: No problem in that in Shā Allah

QUESTION: Is my Salatul Janajah valid if the Hanafi Imam does not recite Surah Fatiha but I do?

Funerals

27 Sep

ANSWER: It is an issue of dispute. If you recited it, your prayer is valid. https://islamqa.info/en/answers/72221/ruling-on-reciting-al-faatihah-in-the-funeral-prayer

QUESTION: My parents are going to umrah In Sha Allah.My father wants to take their funeral cloth to Saudi and wash them with jamjam water as it is a sacred water and bring it back in our country.Wil it be an innovation?

Funerals, Hajj and Umrah, Innovations

10 Sep

ANSWER: Yes. This is an innovation.

QUESTION: Hanafi’s don’t recite Surah Fatiha during the Janaza cause they believe it is not a salah but only a prayer for the deceased. Is their prayer valid?

Funerals, Prayer

06 Sep

ANSWER: Omitting the Fatiha renders their prayer invalid.

QUESTION: People buy Kafan (deadboy cloth) for themselves in advance during their lifetime and keep them. Is it allowed? Then people take it to Makkah and get it washed (ghusl) in zamzam water. They also get different ayats and duas written or imprinted on them. I have never heard of this before and it turns out that this is a practice on a huge level amongst Muslims in the Subcontinent (India/Pak).

Funerals, Innovations

03 Sep

ANSWER: No problem in buying the kafan but taking it to makkah and washing it with zamzam and writing ayahs on it is totally prohibited and an innovation.

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

Funerals

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

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