Ahmad Kutty – Islamic Funerals in the time of COVID19

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The speaker discusses the importance of following guidelines and practicing social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19. They emphasize the need to avoid touching family members and pray for those who have passed away. The speaker also mentions the importance of praying for those who have passed away and finding support in the community.

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			Oh.
		
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			mispredicted Rahman and Rahim Al
hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala
		
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			Rasulillah. While he was happy at
the Marine,
		
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			I have received questions
		
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			on various issues today, I would
like to deal with the issue of
		
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			guidelines that we must observe
		
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			in regards to swabbing funerals in
the present
		
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			Critical Condition of the pandemic
of COVID 19.
		
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			This is a very important question.
		
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			And I would like
		
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			that all of us, some of us may be
called sooner or later to we will
		
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			deal with a situation how do we
observe proper Islamic funerals?
		
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			If someone in our family dies
		
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			the question is very simple, if it
is ordinary times, because in the
		
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			ordinary times
		
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			we are low that
		
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			we should bathe we should shroud
we should pray over. And we should
		
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			confer the family by hugging each
other, embracing each other, and
		
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			visiting each other. And all those
things, standard ways that we
		
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			express grief and share the grief
and also comfort the family. Also,
		
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			you know, sending this person with
dignity to his creator.
		
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			Islam teaches us that we are
created from the earth and to the
		
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			earth we shall return. So sending
off the person who have died as
		
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			best as we can by baiting and
shouting, and then offering
		
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			prayers and burying gently and
standing down the grave to make
		
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			further supplication and also
reading some Quran occasionally,
		
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			or the grave coming to the grave
or from homes and asking Allah
		
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			subhanho wa Taala to send the
rewards to the bees for the
		
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			disease, and these are common
practices. But in the present
		
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			crisis, when there is a threat of
contagious disease, when you
		
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			closely interact with the people
who have been infected with this
		
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			very, very deadly virus,
		
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			we may have to skip some of this
and that is required by Sharia
		
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			itself because Sharia considers
preservation of life and health,
		
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			one of the top priorities so, we
are not supposed to endanger our
		
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			servers by interacting with a
person who's sick OB from that
		
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			interaction, we may spread this
virus and one person infected we
		
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			spread it to another, so to So,
whatever guidelines the health
		
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			personnel have prescribed, we must
abide by them 100%
		
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			You know, and you may ask, you
know, what is there is just a
		
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			we may not be infected. We know,
in Sharia, we act on the
		
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			vulnerable to learn all of
jurisprudence teaches us you know,
		
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			if you're a Mufti or mastering
Islamic jurisprudence, we act on
		
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			whatever to one reasonable ground.
So, the scientific research have
		
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			shown there is a reasonable ground
of avoiding this spread of virus
		
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			is to keep our distance and also
to maintain our dose observer
		
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			those regulations and rules they
have prescribed. So, it is to save
		
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			lives, we should be thankful to
Allah subhanaw taala we have the
		
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			scientific community who care who
want to protect us. So, we should
		
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			not so if if we cannot, if the
recommendation is we are not
		
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			supposed to bait or even a make
tire moon because you know, when
		
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			there is
		
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			debating is not possible we make
tire move on the body itself. If
		
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			that is also Kerala is not
recommended by the health
		
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			personnel, the physicians handling
this kind of situations, that we
		
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			must not do that. Then what is
next, we should make dua make a
		
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			prayer actually janazah can be
prayed even though purification is
		
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			a requirement. If that requirement
cannot be fulfilled. The
		
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			jurisprudence says if we will
		
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			is a serious situation where one
requirement cannot be fulfilled,
		
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			that doesn't mean you cannot
perform that ibadah. So, still you
		
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			have to do the bother fulfilling
whatever requirements you are able
		
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			to fulfill. So, in this case, of
course, they will back the above
		
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			body and there is no need for you
to baiting that basket or body bag
		
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			with the water because the hosel
is done on the body itself. So, if
		
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			it cannot be done, then if they
cannot be done on the body, there
		
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			is no point of baiting, you know
that box or box or bag or making
		
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			time on the bed, as some people
are recommending there is no need
		
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			for that. And that is because of
the failure to understand the
		
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			principles of jurisprudence. So,
versatile cannot be done them and
		
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			cannot be done, no problem the
volley should be taken. If they
		
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			don't allow for more than five
people.
		
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			You only five people should go
there. And they should, after the
		
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			burrito is done, they should make
the salad to janazah on the
		
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			Griever Rasulullah sallallahu
wasallam himself has set the
		
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			preference for it. And it was
practiced by the seller for
		
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			salary. So we can pray janazah on
the green as for those who are
		
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			watching, if they abt streamed,
you know, to the houses that
		
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			people can follow and follow
Serato Janaza you know, they hear
		
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			it and they see it, surely they
can also perform Serato janazah
		
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			from home. Otherwise, you know
individuals can go later to the
		
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			grave or make Serato OIB you know
they can in absentia you know they
		
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			can make Serato Janaza when that
person and later on in sha Allah
		
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			when situations in blue. Also
don't forget to call the family,
		
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			the family and comfort them this
is the least we could do at least
		
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			call them and talk to them in sha
Allah or WhatsApp or whatever
		
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			devices you have. And it confirmed
them and make dua for them and ask
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala to inspire
them with patience and to accept
		
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			his will. And also pray for that
person as well as the pupil he has
		
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			left behind me and last one
autorola Protect the mall. So this
		
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			is briefly what is required of us.
And we have lost monitor of course
		
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			after having done so, when the
situation improves, we can go and
		
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			visit the grave as often as we can
we can also make it worse for that
		
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			person. Every time we make our
salah. We can pray for those who
		
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			have passed away. Whether our own
parents and grandparents uncles or
		
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			aunts or family members or
friends. We can make dua for them.
		
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			Your loss partner with Allah help
us come out of this crisis and
		
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			purified in faith. And we lost one
author bless her those who died as
		
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			victims of this COVID May Allah
Spano to accept them as martyrs
		
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			are full of holy Hi, that was
tough. Rolla Salam alaykum
		
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			Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh