QUESTION: In our country if a person dies they display the deceased to the visitors until the people who should them arrives the deceased will be placed in a table for people to look at .and when the people of shrouding arrived they shroud and Bury them is it permissable to display the body pls clarify

Funerals
09 Jan

ANSWER: It is disrespectful to display the deceased like this. The sunnah is to cover the deceased face as one changes after death. It is permissible for close and loved ones to come and kiss or take a last look at the deceased if it is a male or they are mahram to the woman […]

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QUESTION: Shaikh I hear from someone that if either the husband or wife dies, the Nikah is broken, so the remaining partner will not be allowed to see the face of another, and if the wife dies, the husband will not be allowed to go to the grave to bury her. is this authentic?

Fiqh of Marriage, Funerals
07 Jan

ANSWER: This is absolutely baseless and fabricated!

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QUESTION: My qn is, it is known that Animals can hear the screams of the dead. I have seen cats/dogs lying on the tombstones. If they are the graves of non-muslims and the animals do not react differently, what can I understand from it?

Funerals
07 Jan

ANSWER: That the animals hear the screams the dead make when they are initially hit by the two angels after questioning. This doesn’t continue and the animals don’t hear what they are shouting other than that. 

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QUESTION: If someone backbites a deadperson,then also deadperson will get the good deeds of the backbitted person.

Backbiting, Funerals
06 Jan

ANSWER: This is double the sin.

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QUESTION: Sometimes videos are spread where u can see a grave of a disbeliever and lots of snakes come out of it. there is also a video where a man took his parrot to a graveyard of disbelievers and the parrot started screaming, it is believed that the parrot mimicked the sound of the people suffering in their graves. can we believe such videos? could we take them as signs?

Funerals
27 Dec

ANSWER: You should not waste your time watching such videos as they don’t mean anything.

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QUESTION: Is it must to bath after seeing the dead. Or just do wudhu is enough

Funerals
24 Dec

ANSWER: No need to take ghusl or to do wudhu as this was abrogated. 

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QUESTION: Sheikh, sometimes people try to put amulets in the soil of grave of deceased person or do black magic or other sinful acts like that, to whom they want to take revenge even after their death (Nauzubillah). Does it hurt them in their grave (in form of Azab). In grave its only the matter between Allah and deceased person so if any third person does such sinful act, will it affect the decreased one

Funerals
20 Dec

ANSWER: This has NO effect over the deceased at all. 

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QUESTION: Some people say that when a muslim person dies his soul remains in this dunya the place where he used to resides & nearby till 40days.Is it true?

Funerals
20 Dec

ANSWER: This is totally baseless and fabricated!

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QUESTION: Is it from sunnah to put zamzam water in the mouth of one who is about to die?

Funerals
20 Dec

ANSWER: No.

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QUESTION: Is being the companion of the Quraan true? I heard that the Quraan will appear as a companion of the believer during Qiyamat. If so, how to become one?

Funerals, Reading/Reciting the Quran
13 Dec

ANSWER: You can become a companion of the Quran by reciting it and memorizing it and understanding its meanings.

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