The ruling on announcing a death with a loudspeaker and offering condolences in the cemetery
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: In our country, the death of a person is announced through a loudspeaker in the mosque. Then we go to accompany the funeral procession, and we find the deceased’s family gathered in the cemetery in a single row, with people offering their condolences to them one after another. Is this a prescribed matter?
Answer:
Yes, their intention with this is to make things easier for people; since they are gathered together, it is easier for people to offer condolences. There is no harm in that, but it should not be done in the cemetery; it should be outside the cemetery. No place should be built for it, such as what they call a place for condolences; nothing should be built. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: In our country, the death of a person is announced through a loudspeaker in the mosque. Then we go to accompany the funeral procession, and we find the deceased’s family gathered in the cemetery in a single row, with people offering their condolences to them one after another. Is this a prescribed matter?
Answer:
Yes, their intention with this is to make things easier for people; since they are gathered together, it is easier for people to offer condolences. There is no harm in that, but it should not be done in the cemetery; it should be outside the cemetery. No place should be built for it, such as what they call a place for condolences; nothing should be built. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 14-11-1436هـ — alfawzan.live (1:00:48)
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