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.