This is a message asking about mourning for more than three days for anyone other than the wife of the deceased. The sender says: S.
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The questioner : This is a message asking about mourning for more than three days for anyone other than the wife of the deceased. The sender, S. T. A. from the city of Rabigh, asks: What is the Islamic ruling on some women who, upon the death of one of their relatives, make the mourning period forty days, during which they do not visit anyone, even a sick person, nor attend a wedding? And if they do, they mock the one who visits?
The Shaykh : The prescribed and obligatory mourning is the mourning of a woman for her husband.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : As for her mourning for anyone other than her husband, this is not permissible except for three days or less. Anything exceeding the three days is forbidden, and it is not permissible for her to do so. Those who mock her if she does not mourn are, in reality, the ones who deserve to be mocked, because the one who does what Allah has made obligatory and leaves what Allah has forbidden is the one who deserves respect, honor, love, and affection from the believers. The one who is mocked is the one who has opposed the commands of Allah and His Messenger, or transgressed the limits of Allah and His Messenger. Yes.
The questioner : This is a message from Ta'if, received from listener S. A., asking about tayammum (dry ablution with clean earth) for the festival prayer.
The Shaykh : The prescribed and obligatory mourning is the mourning of a woman for her husband.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : As for her mourning for anyone other than her husband, this is not permissible except for three days or less. Anything exceeding the three days is forbidden, and it is not permissible for her to do so. Those who mock her if she does not mourn are, in reality, the ones who deserve to be mocked, because the one who does what Allah has made obligatory and leaves what Allah has forbidden is the one who deserves respect, honor, love, and affection from the believers. The one who is mocked is the one who has opposed the commands of Allah and His Messenger, or transgressed the limits of Allah and His Messenger. Yes.
The questioner : This is a message from Ta'if, received from listener S. A., asking about tayammum (dry ablution with clean earth) for the festival prayer.