Category: Funeral

• How to wash the body
• Shrouding and who should wash, pray and bury
• Explanation and controversy of \\\”brain death\\\” and vegetative state

 

Reference: Al-Umdah by ibn Qudamah Al-Maqdisi

 

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• Preferred method of washing
• Benefits of washing / communal obligation
• Covering the nakedness of the dead
• Using technology and advanced methods to wash
• Shrouding
• Shrouds for men and women
• Types of shrouds
• Qs: Can gloves be used in place of a wash cloth?

 

Reference: Al-Umdah by ibn Qudamah Al-Maqdisi

 

Book 3 Chapter 1

 

• Shrouding: types of garment
• How to shroud
• The Prayer:
• Description of the Prayer
• Obligatory part of the prayer
• Prayer of the absentee

 

Reference: Al-Umdah by ibn Qudamah Al-Maqdisi

 

Book 3 Chapter 1

 

• Special Cases – washing impossible, martyr, ihram
• Burial position and shape of grave
• Consoling relatives
• Visiting the graves
• Good deeds done on behalf of the deceased

 

Reference: Al-Umdah by ibn Qudamah Al-Maqdisi

 

Book 3 Chapter 1

 

• Meaning of janazah
• What to do when one is dying
• What to do when one is in a terminal state
• Virtues of visiting the sick
• Environment of the one dying
• Importance of writing a will
• What to do when someone has died

 

Reference: Al-Umdah by ibn Qudamah Al-Maqdisi

 

Book 3 Chapter 1

 

 

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