Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Are the COVID19 Dead Martyrs (Shaheed) and is Ghusl Necassary for Them

Okay, so I want to make a very important clarification about this

because number one, we're calling people who die through the COVID

Acia heat. But then we're saying we have to give them goosal.

Whereas it's known that those who are the proper Shahidi, those who

are proper martyrs, they are not given muscle, they actually buried

in their own gun in their own clothing. And according to,

according to some humans, you don't even prey on them, while

Imam Abu Hanifa says you should prey on them. So one thing we have

to understand is that

this

the Shaheed who is not given a bath, a washing, and shrouding in

an in a white shroud as such, but they're buried with their own

blood and everything, or those who die in the battlefield, like a

proper battlefield. I know this seems like a battlefield. But this

is not the battlefield that is mentioned. It's the battlefield of

a war, like a physical war of some sort. So the those guys are

considered, those people are considered Shahid of this world

and the Hereafter, right because they died in a very particular

circumstance. Now, that is the ideal that is now being referenced

in the Hadith literature. Right? That is the model that's been

referenced and other statements are being made in the Quran and

the Sunnah, in relationship to this, because people knew now what

it was to die in the path of Allah in a battle, huge reward. So now

the prophets of Allah is seem to give a lot of optimism and good

hope to a lot of other people who died in a natural circumstances,

like the plague, right, like the plague, for example, or through

pregnancy, or through being crushed. In an accident. For

example, most unnatural causes, there's about up to 70 such

categories of people mentioned with reference to the Shaheed of

this one, which is the one who dies in battle was not given a

bath, but these people are given a bath, they have to be shrouded

properly, and then they have to be buried. You do the janazah prayer

on them, but from the hero, they will rise on the Day of Judgment

like the other shaheed. But there's a different

categorization. It's like saying that, if you do a shamrock pray in

the morning, after, after sunrise, you will get the reward of our

Omura. Clearly the reward of Amara has its own place in relationship

to that, relative to that and saying you will get the base

reward of that at least. Whereas when you go ombre, there's be

multiplication of reward above that as well, including the ombre.

So don't misunderstand this. We're getting a lot of calls and

comments online that why are you even bothering bathing the disease

in a COVID situation that they are, if they're Shaheed then they

shouldn't be buried. So people are misunderstanding that and kind of

cross referencing these things in an incorrect way. These people

have to be bathed because they are shades of the Hereafter, just like

a pregnant woman who dies during giving birth or in pregnancy.

Right? And likewise, the the, and so on. So even though the Hadith

says our own, the one who's in a Torah when a plague is a Shaheed

right and many people are using this hadith, too. So I got a

question today that if people are using this hadith to say people in

this

pandemic, which is not a proper plague, they're using this hadith

to say the people are shaheed in this. Shaheed, according to this

hadith, then this causes a bit of confusion because the prophets are

awesome said that the Tharun the plague in particular, will never

enter Makkah Makana, Madina Munawwara whereas this one has

because this is not a plague then we say so, how do you reconcile

that idea that if this is a plague, it can enter Madina

Munawwara so this is not a plague, but they were caught using the

same How do you say people who are in this same afflicted by this

same pandemic? Virus, right.

Shaheed by virtue of the Hadith, so that's not to be taken

literally. They're saying that just like, the real meaning of

this is that just like, people in a plague are a shaheed. And

because they're dying of this kind of unnatural cause, while this is

not a plague, but we're hoping because you can only hope for

these things. There's no guarantee about who's a shahid in the path

of Allah anyway. Right? There's no There's no guarantee, the only

thing we guarantee that if somebody dies, fighting in the

path of Allah, they the only guarantee thing is that you have

to deal with them in a different way because that's a physical

aspect. But whether he's accepted or not, is up to Allah. With all

of his efforts and dying for dying in the path is was even accepted.

Allah knows best. If, if some of these crazy people who do crazy

things and they think themselves are shaheed they may not be

Shaheed in the sight of Allah because they've done a crazy

thing. They are not a Shaheed in fact, so likewise here only Allah

knows best who's the Shaheed This is the what optimism that Allah

has told us to have that hopefully they're Shaheed so it's not that

they're Shaheed because they in a plague, but

because they're in a illness, right and there's numerous other

are actually I only got this question this morning I've not had

a chance to look up the 70 category and see which other

categories that COVID Patients may fall into. And again, that's also

going to be based on their sub and patients. Somebody who dies in

this complaining about Allah and miserable and feeling abused and

oppressed. They're not going to get the Shaheed because Shaheed

being a shahid requires a certain hope in Allah,

a certain hoping Allah then that person is considered the matter.

So there's quite a few separate different ideas here that need to

be understood well. So please stop saying that these people are that

Shaheed, which is not paved, these people do have to be bathed as

long as you know we can bathe them as long as the according to the

way the law, the way the health professionals are guiding us to do

that.