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Ṣalāt al-Janāzah (Arabic: صلاة الجنازة) is the name of the special prayer that accompanies an Islamic funeral.It is performed in congregation to seek pardon for the deceased and all dead Muslims, [1] and is a collective obligation (farḍ al-kifāya) upon all able-bodied Muslims; if some Muslims take the responsibility of conducting the prayer, then the obligation is fulfilled ...
The deceased is first bathed and shrouded with simple white cloth. Then a funeral prayer, Salat al-jinazah. Cremation of the body is strictly forbidden in Islam and the body is buried without a casket and the head faces Mecca. Mourning for the deceased is observed for three days except for the widow for whom it's 4 months and 10 days. [1] [2] [3]
A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...
Others regard Barzakh as a world dividing and simultaneously connecting the realm of the dead and the living. [27] Therefore, some Muslim traditions argue about possibilities to contact the dead by sleeping on graveyards. [28] Visiting graves of holy persons or prophets is also a common practise among Muslims, known as Ziyarat.
According to Abu Huraira, Muhammad said . He who utters a hundred times in a day these words: 'there is nobody worthy of worship except Allah. He is One and He has no partner with Him; His is the sovereignty and His is the praise, and He is Omnipotent),' he will have a reward equivalent to that for emancipating ten slaves, a hundred good deeds will be recorded to his credit, hundred of his ...
Glory be to He whose will operates in the earth. Glory be to He who examines (the dead) in the graves! Glory be to he who surface a path over the ocean. Glory be to he who has the total control over the fire! Glory be to he who surrounds the paradise with his mercy. Glory be to he who will do justice on the day of judgment.
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After burial, each person is interrogated in the grave by two angels, called Munkar and Nakir, appointed by God to question the dead in order to test their faith. The righteous believers answer correctly and live in peace and comfort, while the sinners and disbelievers fail and punishments ensue.