Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Khatams and Donating Rewards to Others (Isal alThawab)
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Okay, let's first start with a silo throw up. He saw the thought
is where can you donate something of what you're doing good deeds to
another person. Now, there's a number of levels of about this.
Firstly, can I perform a physical hedge on behalf of another person
who hasn't performed it yet? And now has no chance to perform it
because they've died or the very old
right? Yes, you can because the Prophet sallallahu sallam said you
can a person came to Brazil awesome, said my mother's died.
And I know she would have done how much can I do? How much on our
behalf? He said, Absolutely, you can do it. So we have a clear
Hadith to that effect. Hajj is a monetary and a physical worship.
Now, you don't generally have anything about praying Salah on
behalf of another, somebody's got called up prayers. Can we do cover
prayers on their behalf? Can I do you know, tarot cards to the gods
for the cards, whatever, for some, you know, for my mother if she
missed them, so now they can't do that. That's not established.
However, what is established is you can get video for it.
Payment for it. But with hedge, you got a special dispensation to
actually do the hedge. Likewise, I can't fast on somebody else's
behalf to fulfill their fasting, but I can pay on their behalf. I
can't pay off a hedge, you have to make somebody do the hedge. Now,
that's doing a worship for somebody else the worship is for
someone else. So there's a distinction in that between
hygiene and other things. When it comes to what we're talking about
here donating the rewards, so I'm doing my own fasting, nothing
fast. I'm doing my own reading of the Quran. I'm doing my own
knuffel Hajj, but I decided that you know, all this reward that
I've got from this reading, or from this fast or from this
charity, I want to give that to somebody, can you do that or not?
So now, there was some disagreement in the earliest
scholars about Quran reading, and it's its reward, they agreed on
certain things and not another things which will be mentioned
here. Right?
Essentially, majority have come to the conclusion that yes, you can
donate the reward. Now, that is for example, I've read I finished
the Quran. So I want to give that reward the reward of it to my
mother, will I also get the reward or not. So some of the other must
say that since your since you're transferring the reward over to
them, you you got no reward left, of course, you got the reward of
doing the act of giving somebody a reward, but actual reward of your
reading the Quran is gone. Other say that, that is the rule. That's
the principle that's the understanding, but inshallah you
Allah will also reward you for it. And we hope from Allah that that's
the case. But either way, you obviously want to give it to
somebody who, for some reason, has left this world or for any other
reason you can give it to a person who is alive or dead, it doesn't
make a difference. Because you're just asking Allah to give it. Now
the one thing which nobody can argue with is Dwars on behalf of
somebody else I always accepted because that's clearly mentioned
the Hadith. So even those who did not agree, initially, in the early
times with the transferring your reward, they could not have any
problems with saying Oh Allah, making a DUA, not just an
intention to make an O Allah of this reward that I've got when you
transfer it over does not want them to have that reward for them.
That should not be a problem.
But anyway, it's generally not seen as a problem anymore. Now,
there are some manifestations of this, which are an issue
which is where, you know, the operational light opera
operationalization of it is an issue. For example, somebody
passes away, and you keep a huddle, which means a special
program and a session in which everybody is invited.
And you all sit and read something like you finish your Quran your
written test be heard or your scene or whatever it is, and then
you say, Oh Allah take the reward of this and give it to the
deceased person. Is that allowed or not?
Per Se Yes, it is allowed. But it becomes problematic due to other
reasons. Number one, the Sahaba never did that. So you could all
sit in your houses and do it. That's why nowadays a lot of
people what they do is they just send it down on WhatsApp. One of
the positive uses of WhatsApp my mother's died. Can you please
everybody take us apart if they can address if they can? Somebody?
Okay, I'll take number one, I'll take number two out there's no
obligation. I'll take this I'll take this. I'll take this Okay,
call us. You guys read it by this time and then I'll make the one
reward. No problem with that. There's no obligation. The problem
is that in many cultures, it's an obligation to do on particular
days. The third the 10th, the 40th the year and, and so on, number
one. Number two, if you don't come
They'll break ties with you.
Right? That is totally wrong. They obligate you to go from here to
Manchester, for example. And you don't really want to go but you're
going because they're gonna cut ties with you. So your petrol
money is all wasted. Your entire day is wasted and you didn't get
any reward for it because you're doing it just to show
rather than that.
If for example, you know, generally after the after somebody
dies in your house,
and people are gonna gather together for what, three days
anyway. So what I think is a good idea is to keep some Carranza keep
some, you know, those separate edges of those separate pots, some
Yacine, some DSP hats, keep them there. And whoever it is, Will
will start reading themselves don't force anybody to read.
They'll take it they'll just be sitting then the three guys are
reading then there's going to be quite foolish for others to start
talking because otherwise they talk about everything under the
sun afterwards. So I found that to be a very useful way there's no
obligation there's no necessity of food, and so on and so forth. And
there's no hard feelings. So as long as there's no hard feelings
in them casually like in some massage and they do this I was in
Mufti Cheb yourselves Masjid in Blackburn and after Salah there
was an announcement we're going to have a Yacine Hutton for so and so
anybody who will can stay stay. So we stayed read Yasin whoever wants
to walk out go there's no obligation as long as there's no
hard feeling it's okay. Because it is a new thing. It is a new thing.
It wasn't done to sort of Lhasa but every new thing is not wrong
to do unless you make it obligatory, or you make it kind of
extra rewarding. We're just facilitating this is not extra
reward. It is facilitation for extra reward. So it's a Waseda
it's a facilitation just kind of make it easy. We're here together
anyway, let's do something for our mother.
Allah