Shadee Elmasry – Placing Flowers on Graves

18 August 2024

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The speaker discusses the history of Islam, including the use of plants to symbolize acceptance of Islam and the punishment of sinful behavior. They also mention a branch placed on someone's grave and the use of words to describe their consciousness. The speaker explains that things that are alive have a positive consciousness and are praised by Allah.

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Is a Muslim allowed to go to a

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grave and put flowers on the grave? The

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam pointed to 2 people

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at the grave, and he said they're being

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punished but not for something major. One of

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them, he wasn't cautious about cleaning up urine

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after going to the bathroom. And this other

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man was gossiping. It's forbidden to go around

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gossiping like this. Then the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam took a branch, and he placed

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it on their graves.

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And he said perhaps that this will decrease

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the punishment as long as they say green.

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Why? Because of the tasbih of green things.

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Things that are alive have a type of

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consciousness in which they make tasbih. They praise

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Allah. Tasbih means they're praising Allah. So therefore,

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that's a sunnah there that

"I really think this is one of the greatest causes one could support"

Mufti Ismail Menk