Suhaib Webb – Reciting the Quran To Benefit The Dead
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Numerous text that support this act, and that's
why the majority of the scholars allow it,
specifically the hadith of Abu Dawood where the
prophet said, if the deceased was Muslim and
you're free a slave on his behalf, give
charity on his behalf, or perform Hajj on
his behalf.
That he will receive the reward for that.
In some of the books of the Hanafi
Medhab, you actually find a chapter. Right? That's
the chapter on the blessings of reciting the
Quran reaching the deceased.
Any act of kurba I'm gonna talk about
in a second that someone does for deceased
Muslim.
The reward of that act of kurba, obedience
and nearness to Allah will be given to
the deceased as a blessing
then it will be given to that person
and be a benefit. There's another really beautiful
quote that I wanna share with you that
really touched me. And is recited on behalf
of the deceased with the intention of sharing
the blessings with them. The reciter gets the
reward, and it is
It is though the dead person is there
listening to the Quran being recited because of
that intention and they share in the those
who don't allow it, they use 2 evidence.
Number 1, of course, is Sultan Najim verse
39
that a person's reward in the hereafter or
punishment is strictly based on what they strove
for while they were alive. Evidence is the
hadith that the actions of a person cease
when they die except 3.
The response to this from the majority is
that, yes, those person's efforts, the person's effort
for himself stops, but
the other narrations make it very clear that
each person is no longer able to work
because they died.
But the other narration show that others can,
in fact, work on their behalf and send
blessings
and to them. Tonight inshallah late in the
evening, I'm gonna read from a book an
entire chapter with you. This in great detail
the things that we can do to help
and aid
our beloveds who have passed away from the
Muslimi.