Continuation of the answer to the second part of the question, which is: Is it permissible to eulogize a deceased person or a martyr with verses of poetry?
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The Shaykh : Yes, the second part of the question was this. The first part was about burying martyrs in mosques, and the second part is about eulogizing the deceased. This is, of course, one of the newly invented matters. In fact, how beautiful is the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the deceased: Mishkat al-Masabih 1603. Either he is one who has found rest in what he sent ahead of good deeds, and he will be placed directly in the grave before Paradise as a reward for his righteous deeds, or he is one from whom relief has been found, from his evil, his oppression, and his transgression. This one who has found rest does not need anyone to eulogize him or praise him in verse or prose. As for the one from whom relief has been found, it will not benefit him even if the whole world agreed to describe him in a way that contradicts his true nature. From this, we know that it is a great deviation from the Shari'ah for some people to feign extracting a testimony from some of those present at the funeral prayer that the deceased was a righteous man. They say, for example, "What do you testify about the man?" as if it were a profession. The attendees know that if the questioner asks, "What do you testify?" the answer should be "righteous." So it is as if if he says "a righteous man," what is in the Preserved Tablet changes, where it was previously "wicked." If he says "a righteous man," this is one of the most amazing things by which people are tested due to their heedlessness of the Shari'ah. The truth is that... he had knowledge of this, and he did not deny it, nor did he advise that you should not do such and such. All of this is contrary to the Shari'ah. One may be afflicted with some of the harm of this, which is false testimony.
Other than that?
He is at rest, or others are at rest from him.
إنه مستريحٌ أو مُستراحٌ منهOther than that?
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