The ruling on description in supplication, such as mentioning the attributes of death and the grave
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Question:
And he asks: What is the ruling on description in supplication, such as what some imams do when mentioning death? They describe the attributes of death and the attributes of the grave, and the like of that. What is it? What some imams do in the supplication of qunut is that they describe the dead and describe the grave while they are in the supplication of qunut.
Answer:
These are details that are not necessary and they burden the people; they burden the people. The people know about death and they know about the grave, but [the scholar] should encourage them to do good deeds and prepare for death and the grave. As for you saying, "The grave is such and such, and death is such and such," they know this; it is not needed. Yes.
And he asks: What is the ruling on description in supplication, such as what some imams do when mentioning death? They describe the attributes of death and the attributes of the grave, and the like of that. What is it? What some imams do in the supplication of qunut is that they describe the dead and describe the grave while they are in the supplication of qunut.
Answer:
These are details that are not necessary and they burden the people; they burden the people. The people know about death and they know about the grave, but [the scholar] should encourage them to do good deeds and prepare for death and the grave. As for you saying, "The grave is such and such, and death is such and such," they know this; it is not needed. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [174/186] حكم الوصف في الدعاء كذكر صفة الموت والقبر - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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