The Shaykh’s remarks on the innovations and deviations occurring in funerals in this age.
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The Shaykh : Yes, you are a shepherd for your father.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : We see his state, yes. So Abu al-Darda wrote to his brother Salman from Sham inviting him to come, saying, "Come to the Holy Land." The reply came as if it were revelation from the sky: "As for what follows, the Holy Land does not sanctify anyone; rather, it is a person's deeds that sanctify him."
Another questioner: Allahu Akbar, what Allah willed.
The questioner : Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh : So I imagine, are you one of the wretched who was buried next to the Messenger of Allah?
The questioner : (peace and blessings be upon him)
The Shaykh : What did he gain?
The questioner : ... .
Another questioner: Nothing at all.
The Shaykh : And one of the most pious of the pious died in an accident, for example, a plane crash, and was buried in America in the land of disbelief, and it does not harm him at all, do you understand? Therefore, one of the deviations of Muslims in creed is their heedlessness regarding the true, lawful causes and their neglect of them on one hand, and their clinging to imaginary causes that they invented, imagined, and clung to, which benefit them in no way whatsoever. This is all a reversal of the conditions of the religion. For this reason, when it comes to the martyrs, the command came that they should be buried in their places of martyrdom, where they died. So, bury them there.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : So what about the general Muslims who die in Europe? They transfer the body, where to? To Madinah or Makkah, if it is possible for them. When the deceased dies, they rush with him. There is a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari: "When you carry the deceased, hasten with him. If he is righteous, you are presenting good to him; if he is not righteous, you are removing evil from your necks." The Muslims do not pay attention to these meanings. They keep the deceased in their house, which may be Hellfire surrounding them.
The questioner : I seek refuge in Allah.
The Shaykh : Yes, why did they hasten with him? If he is good, you present good to him; if he is bad, you get rid of him. The Muslims do not pay attention to these lawful meanings at all. "Holy Land, bury me there."
The questioner : This is what I understood: it is not permissible, if... a calamity occurs, for them to make a coffin for him and transfer him to Jerusalem for such and such.
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not...
The questioner : ... .
Another questioner: The hour...
The Shaykh : It is not permissible.
The questioner : ...he rests in it, and so on, for the sake of Allah... Allah, such and such.
The Shaykh : If you want to do good, spread the correct information that you have.
The questioner : In the two stores.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : One is in the industrial zone and...
The Shaykh : Spread it and call people to it. And for this reason, we say that one of the innovations of this age is that the Muslims have divided into two groups: da'is (callers) and non-da'is.
The questioner : The da'i only has to call, and the one who is not a da'i...
The Shaykh : And the greatest of calamities is that there are women among them who are also da'iyah (female callers).
The questioner : It is supposed that everyone...
The Shaykh : Every Muslim must be a da'i, wherever he is: in his workshop, in his profession, in his craft, in his sitting, in his leisure. He should seize the opportunity to enjoin good and forbid evil. So, you are a carpenter, and someone comes to you and says, "Make me this toy for my son." You tell him, "No, this is not permissible," for example, and so on...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This coffin-maker comes to you, tell him this is not permissible. The deceased, may Allah be pleased with Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, when he died or when death approached him, said to them, "Bury me in my two old garments." He said, "The living have more right to the new than the dead," because this will decay, it will decay. Were it not for the Sunnah, there would be no necessity at all... We shroud the deceased in three shrouds. Why? It all becomes what? Dust. The deceased himself, with the shroud, becomes what? Dust. Why do we waste, even a single mill, to buy what? Three shrouds? A shroud is for covering his 'awrah (nakedness) and that is it. But this is how the Messenger...
The questioner : The Sunnah.
The Shaykh : The Sunnah prescribed this Sunnah for us. And therefore, as Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If the religion were by opinion, I would have seen wiping the bottom of the leather sock rather than the top. But I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) wiping over the leather socks." So, we follow the Sunnah; we do not use our intellect at all against the Sunnah. We use our intellect to understand the text from the Book and the Sunnah, not to let our intellect rule over the Book and the Sunnah... A shroud. Were it not that it is a Sunnah, we would say, why three shrouds? Why? We would say with full boldness, why a coffin? What will the coffin preserve? Will the coffin preserve the deceased?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : It will decay, he and the deceased, both. And this is with what? Wasting of wealth.
The questioner : ...what about the Muslim who wears a priest's robe on Christmas and... the bell at... discounts.
The Shaykh : Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : ...Muslim.
The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah.
The questioner : Because... people buy from him.
The Shaykh : How... Muslims.
Another questioner: ...my lord, the Sunnah? ...
The questioner : The second Sunnah, the police are deluded.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : Deluded from the streets, the police. When they made a commotion... the Muslims...
Another questioner: Because they became what? All of them Christians, and there are Muslims... on the street, they also wait... and... the greatest calamity is that you find these Muslims... and sometimes... he becomes one who greets... they said, give him something sweet, not sweet, meaning what?
The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah, I seek refuge in Allah.
The questioner : Truly, one means, the hearts break at the sight, by Allah. Muslims... in their belief that belittling it is necessary, meaning, dig, dig in his brain, this matter, that this matter is correct and this matter is not... stop them there, I must stop my son, I also at...
Another questioner: Arrange for you... four or five days before the 'Id, on a Friday, that he warned about these things...
The questioner : ...they hit them with this or there was a dispute between them... I got out in the car, I saw them with my own eyes...
Another questioner: You are the one who studies law.
The questioner : For you, Muhammad, about the television channels, what did they do...
Another questioner: They do not do them.
The questioner : That is television and video, but.
The Shaykh : It is not permissible.
The questioner : A specific private person does this work.
The Shaykh : ...everything, my brother, everything, take it as a rule: everything in it is assistance in a munkar (evil), so it is a munkar.
The questioner : ...I want to do... and I want... and you do what? I told him, okay, I found... but since you...
Another questioner: This is a pole...
The Shaykh : You know, stick to it.
The questioner : ...perhaps Abu Ahmad told you.
Another questioner: Yes, I spoke to him about the matter...
The Shaykh : Yes, he told me.
The questioner : ...married.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : We see his state, yes. So Abu al-Darda wrote to his brother Salman from Sham inviting him to come, saying, "Come to the Holy Land." The reply came as if it were revelation from the sky: "As for what follows, the Holy Land does not sanctify anyone; rather, it is a person's deeds that sanctify him."
Another questioner: Allahu Akbar, what Allah willed.
The questioner : Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh : So I imagine, are you one of the wretched who was buried next to the Messenger of Allah?
The questioner : (peace and blessings be upon him)
The Shaykh : What did he gain?
The questioner : ... .
Another questioner: Nothing at all.
The Shaykh : And one of the most pious of the pious died in an accident, for example, a plane crash, and was buried in America in the land of disbelief, and it does not harm him at all, do you understand? Therefore, one of the deviations of Muslims in creed is their heedlessness regarding the true, lawful causes and their neglect of them on one hand, and their clinging to imaginary causes that they invented, imagined, and clung to, which benefit them in no way whatsoever. This is all a reversal of the conditions of the religion. For this reason, when it comes to the martyrs, the command came that they should be buried in their places of martyrdom, where they died. So, bury them there.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : So what about the general Muslims who die in Europe? They transfer the body, where to? To Madinah or Makkah, if it is possible for them. When the deceased dies, they rush with him. There is a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari: "When you carry the deceased, hasten with him. If he is righteous, you are presenting good to him; if he is not righteous, you are removing evil from your necks." The Muslims do not pay attention to these meanings. They keep the deceased in their house, which may be Hellfire surrounding them.
The questioner : I seek refuge in Allah.
The Shaykh : Yes, why did they hasten with him? If he is good, you present good to him; if he is bad, you get rid of him. The Muslims do not pay attention to these lawful meanings at all. "Holy Land, bury me there."
The questioner : This is what I understood: it is not permissible, if... a calamity occurs, for them to make a coffin for him and transfer him to Jerusalem for such and such.
The Shaykh : No, no, it is not...
The questioner : ... .
Another questioner: The hour...
The Shaykh : It is not permissible.
The questioner : ...he rests in it, and so on, for the sake of Allah... Allah, such and such.
The Shaykh : If you want to do good, spread the correct information that you have.
The questioner : In the two stores.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : One is in the industrial zone and...
The Shaykh : Spread it and call people to it. And for this reason, we say that one of the innovations of this age is that the Muslims have divided into two groups: da'is (callers) and non-da'is.
The questioner : The da'i only has to call, and the one who is not a da'i...
The Shaykh : And the greatest of calamities is that there are women among them who are also da'iyah (female callers).
The questioner : It is supposed that everyone...
The Shaykh : Every Muslim must be a da'i, wherever he is: in his workshop, in his profession, in his craft, in his sitting, in his leisure. He should seize the opportunity to enjoin good and forbid evil. So, you are a carpenter, and someone comes to you and says, "Make me this toy for my son." You tell him, "No, this is not permissible," for example, and so on...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : This coffin-maker comes to you, tell him this is not permissible. The deceased, may Allah be pleased with Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, when he died or when death approached him, said to them, "Bury me in my two old garments." He said, "The living have more right to the new than the dead," because this will decay, it will decay. Were it not for the Sunnah, there would be no necessity at all... We shroud the deceased in three shrouds. Why? It all becomes what? Dust. The deceased himself, with the shroud, becomes what? Dust. Why do we waste, even a single mill, to buy what? Three shrouds? A shroud is for covering his 'awrah (nakedness) and that is it. But this is how the Messenger...
The questioner : The Sunnah.
The Shaykh : The Sunnah prescribed this Sunnah for us. And therefore, as Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If the religion were by opinion, I would have seen wiping the bottom of the leather sock rather than the top. But I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) wiping over the leather socks." So, we follow the Sunnah; we do not use our intellect at all against the Sunnah. We use our intellect to understand the text from the Book and the Sunnah, not to let our intellect rule over the Book and the Sunnah... A shroud. Were it not that it is a Sunnah, we would say, why three shrouds? Why? We would say with full boldness, why a coffin? What will the coffin preserve? Will the coffin preserve the deceased?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : It will decay, he and the deceased, both. And this is with what? Wasting of wealth.
The questioner : ...what about the Muslim who wears a priest's robe on Christmas and... the bell at... discounts.
The Shaykh : Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : ...Muslim.
The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah.
The questioner : Because... people buy from him.
The Shaykh : How... Muslims.
Another questioner: ...my lord, the Sunnah? ...
The questioner : The second Sunnah, the police are deluded.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : Deluded from the streets, the police. When they made a commotion... the Muslims...
Another questioner: Because they became what? All of them Christians, and there are Muslims... on the street, they also wait... and... the greatest calamity is that you find these Muslims... and sometimes... he becomes one who greets... they said, give him something sweet, not sweet, meaning what?
The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah, I seek refuge in Allah.
The questioner : Truly, one means, the hearts break at the sight, by Allah. Muslims... in their belief that belittling it is necessary, meaning, dig, dig in his brain, this matter, that this matter is correct and this matter is not... stop them there, I must stop my son, I also at...
Another questioner: Arrange for you... four or five days before the 'Id, on a Friday, that he warned about these things...
The questioner : ...they hit them with this or there was a dispute between them... I got out in the car, I saw them with my own eyes...
Another questioner: You are the one who studies law.
The questioner : For you, Muhammad, about the television channels, what did they do...
Another questioner: They do not do them.
The questioner : That is television and video, but.
The Shaykh : It is not permissible.
The questioner : A specific private person does this work.
The Shaykh : ...everything, my brother, everything, take it as a rule: everything in it is assistance in a munkar (evil), so it is a munkar.
The questioner : ...I want to do... and I want... and you do what? I told him, okay, I found... but since you...
Another questioner: This is a pole...
The Shaykh : You know, stick to it.
The questioner : ...perhaps Abu Ahmad told you.
Another questioner: Yes, I spoke to him about the matter...
The Shaykh : Yes, he told me.
The questioner : ...married.