Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Using WhatsApp to Benefit the Dead

Just want to mention one very, very interesting thing that we've

just put into action. What happened is when I was in South

Africa in Ramadan, recently, I met one of the brothers that were

there, helping out with the organization of the ethical

program and so on. I was speaking to one, then he is not an alum,

but it's a very mashallah concerned individual organizing

these things. And he said that what we do within our family, he's

got a few brothers. And then he's got, you know, brother in laws and

so on. He says, what we do is that I believe he said once a week,

right, maybe every two weeks, but I think it was once a week, once a

week, or once every two weeks, what we do is we finish the Quran

off. So what we do is on WhatsApp or whatever, we just say, you

know, we want to do a hatom. So all the members of the family that

are on this, okay, I'll take first, the first Jews, second,

Jews, third, Sebata, for Sebata. And that way, it gets shared out

very difficult for one person, maybe to finish a Quran every

week, not everybody can do that some people do. But this is they

share it out in maybe for 3040 members of the family, right, so a

Quran gets finished. And then what they do with the reward of that,

right, which is, you know, agreed upon, according to the majority of

Scholars is that they send this to all of their families deceased,

which means their mother and father who's passed away, or the

grandparents who passed away, wonderful way to remember your

deceased loved ones. So I just started that, you know, we just

started that in our family. And I hope it continues. And I would

recommend for all of you to this, you guys all have these WhatsApp

groups, family, WhatsApp groups and other groups. Well use it for

the start, okay, we do a lot of chatting, we do a lot of maybe,

you know, we may organize the family get togethers, and all the

rest of family outings and family restaurant, outings and all the

rest of it. Well, let's do one of these things as well, because

everybody's got people who've died. And we're always going to

have people who will die and we're going to die one day. So if we

start this tradition, right, if we start this tradition, then in sha

Allah, somebody after we die, is also going to be including us in

that reward that they sent. And it's just what I believe this is

southern Nigeria, in that sense, and it's very easy to do because

it's not burden any single person, it encourages people to read a bit

of Quran right? So insha Allah You know, I pray that Allah subhanaw

taala accept this from all of us and allow us all to put this if

this is one lesson from today, then you know, this is a very

practical lesson, get on your whatsapp and use them for

something useful, right, get on your whatsapp and use it for

something useful because Insha Allah, this will, you know, they

say they'll come back to bite you this will come back to benefit

you, you will bask in his glory Inshallah, in the hereafter

because of what you did, because you will also get the very first

person to do this, you will actually get the reward of

everybody who does this in your family, and then eventually you

will also get the benefit of people praying and sending you the

reward as well. So may Allah subhanaw taala accept that from

us.