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