How to console someone who has lost a loved one
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Q 6: How is one to console someone who has lost a loved one? Does he go to his home or his place of work? It is well known that in this age, residences have become far apart, resulting in relatives and acquaintances not seeing one another except on special occasions, and among those occasions is the death of a person. Is it prescribed for one who has been stricken by the loss of a loved one to sit in his home so that people can console him, or how and where is the consolation to take place?
A 6: It is the Sunnah to console the family of the deceased, whether in the mosque, the home, the office, or the market, according to one’s ability, or in the cemetery if he was unable to pray over the deceased in the mosque. If none of that is feasible, he may console them by telephone or by writing.
A 6: It is the Sunnah to console the family of the deceased, whether in the mosque, the home, the office, or the market, according to one’s ability, or in the cemetery if he was unable to pray over the deceased in the mosque. If none of that is feasible, he may console them by telephone or by writing.
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