Jadwal for the Halqahs [learning sessions] of the weekly Ijtima’ (overseas), 16 May 2019

1. Short Bayan on different topics: 5 minutes

2. Memorising Du’a: 5 minutes

3. Fikr-e-Madinah: 5 minutes

4. Total duration: 15 minutes

Madani pearls regarding funeral

 ٭While going with a Janazah, keep on thinking about your own fate that you will also be taken one day in the same way as this person is being taken today; you will also be buried in the same way as this person is going to be buried beneath tons of soil. It is ‘Ibadat [an act of worship] and a source of earning Sawab to contemplate like this.

 ٭Shouldering the deceased is a source of earning Sawab. It is stated in a blessed Hadees: ‘Forty grave sins will be erased of the one who carries a Janazah for forty steps.’ Moreover, it is stated in another blessed Hadees: ‘Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ will grant absolute forgiveness to the one who shoulders all four corners of a Janazah.’ (Jauhara-tun-Nayyirah, pp. 139; Durr-e-Mukhtar ma’ Rad-dul-Muhtar, vol. 3, pp. 158; Bahar-e-Shari’at, vol. 1, pp. 823)

 ٭The Sunnah method is to shoulder a Janazah from all four corners one after another and to walk ten steps each time. The complete Sunnah is to first shoulder the top right side [of the deceased], then the bottom right side, then the top left side and then the bottom left side. One should walk ten steps [shouldering each side], so he will take forty steps in total. (‘Aalamgiri, vol. 1, pp. 162; Bahar-e-Shari’at, vol. 1, pp. 822)

 ٭While shouldering a Janazah, it is impermissible, Haraam and an act that leads towards Hell to push people deliberately in a way that hurts them, like some people do in the Janazah of a personality.

 ٭Husband can shoulder the Janazah of his wife, lower her into the grave and even see her face. Only [the acts of] giving Ghusl and touching the