Buying the shroud and keeping it in the house to remember death
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh. The questioner says: What is your view on a person buying a shroud and keeping it in his house to remind himself of death? Is there any harm in that?
Answer:
This is something the Salaf did not do, as far as we know. Only some of the ascetics and some of the worshippers do it, but there is no evidence for it in the Shari'ah. Remembering death does not require shrouds. Remembering death through them? Death is not something hidden. You see death today; you see the funerals. I mean, you do not need a shroud to remember death. There is not a day that passes without you seeing funerals and hearing about funerals, hearing that so-and-so has died. So it does not need a shroud.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh. The questioner says: What is your view on a person buying a shroud and keeping it in his house to remind himself of death? Is there any harm in that?
Answer:
This is something the Salaf did not do, as far as we know. Only some of the ascetics and some of the worshippers do it, but there is no evidence for it in the Shari'ah. Remembering death does not require shrouds. Remembering death through them? Death is not something hidden. You see death today; you see the funerals. I mean, you do not need a shroud to remember death. There is not a day that passes without you seeing funerals and hearing about funerals, hearing that so-and-so has died. So it does not need a shroud.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، اللقاء الأسبوعي-12 من 32-لفضيلة الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان -حفظه الله- مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (55:51)
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