How to bury a woman from the People of the Book who died with a child in her womb from a Muslim husband
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The Shaykh: Your Eminence! This is a Muslim man who married a woman from the People of the Book, and she became pregnant with two children from him. When the child moved in her womb and she had reached five months, this woman died. Where should she be buried?
The fetus in her womb should be prayed over, and the barrier between us and this fetus does not harm; because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed over the grave, and the earth was a barrier between him and the deceased. So the fetus is prayed over in her womb, and she is buried with us -Meaning: with the Muslims: but her face should be turned away from the qiblah, and her back toward the qiblah; because the fetus, by the wisdom of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), has its back toward its mother's belly, and its face toward its mother's back. And in her womb, its face is toward the back, and its back toward the belly,And the wisdom of this is: that if its face is toward the mother's back, the back becomes a protection for it, and if its back is toward its mother's belly, its back becomes a protection for it, because the mother's belly is thin, and everything affects the fetus, but what is next to the belly is the back, which is strong and can withstand it. This is from the wisdom of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And based on this, we bury her in the Muslim cemeteries, but we make her back toward the back of the qiblah; so that the face of the fetus is toward the qiblah.
The fetus in her womb should be prayed over, and the barrier between us and this fetus does not harm; because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed over the grave, and the earth was a barrier between him and the deceased. So the fetus is prayed over in her womb, and she is buried with us -Meaning: with the Muslims: but her face should be turned away from the qiblah, and her back toward the qiblah; because the fetus, by the wisdom of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), has its back toward its mother's belly, and its face toward its mother's back. And in her womb, its face is toward the back, and its back toward the belly,And the wisdom of this is: that if its face is toward the mother's back, the back becomes a protection for it, and if its back is toward its mother's belly, its back becomes a protection for it, because the mother's belly is thin, and everything affects the fetus, but what is next to the belly is the back, which is strong and can withstand it. This is from the wisdom of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And based on this, we bury her in the Muslim cemeteries, but we make her back toward the back of the qiblah; so that the face of the fetus is toward the qiblah.