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کُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَائِقَۃُ الْمَوْتِ
According
to the above verse, every person who is born into this world will at his
appointed time have to leave this realm to another realm. Religion pursues the
rights that humans have upon each other. When one expires the rights of the
expired one become incumbent upon those remaining in this world. The first
right takes the form of performance of the Funeral Prayer. This Prayer gives
significance to the right of the deceased one to be supplicated for. The method
of performing the Funeral Prayer is as follows:-
One
should say by tongue or in the heart that I intend to offer the Funeral Prayer
consisting of four Takbeers, to say the Sana for Allah, send Durood (peace) to
the Holy Prophet (pbuh) and supplicate for this deceased body.
After
the intention one should say the first Takbeer اَللّٰہُ
اَکْبَرُ .
One should then recite the Sana:-
سُبْحَانَکَ
اَللّٰھُمَّ وَ بِحَمْدِکَ وَ تَبَارَکَ اسْمُکَ وَ تَعَالیٰ جَدُّکَ وَجَلَّ
ثَنَاءُکَ وَ لَآ اِلٰہَ غَیْرُکَ
‘Glory be to You, O Allah, and all
praises are due unto You, and blessed is Your name and high is Your majesty and
none is worthy of worship but You’
After
the Sana one should say the second Takbeer followed by the recitation of the
two Durood Shareefs
of
Prayer and then the third Takbeer.
If the funeral is of an adult the
following supplication should be recited:
اَللّٰھُمَّ
اغْفِرْلِحَیِّنَا وَ مَیِّتِنَا وَ شَاھِدِنَا وَ غَآ ءِبِنَاوَ صَغِیْرِنَا وَ
کَبِیْرِنَا وَ ذَکَرِنَا وَ اُنْثٰنَا اَللّٰھُمَّ مَنْ
اَحْیَیْتَہٗ
مِنَّا فَاَحْیِہٖ عَلَی الْاِسْلَامِ وَ مَنْ تَوَ فَّیْتَہٗ
مِنَّا فَتَوَ فَّہٗ عَلَی الْاِیْمَانِ
مِنَّا
فَتَوَ فَّہٗ عَلَی الْاِیْمَانِ
‘Oh
Allah, forgive our people who are still alive and who have passed away, forgive
those who are present here and those who are absent, forgive our young and our
elderly, forgive our males and females. O Allah, the one whom You wish to keep
alive from among us make him live according to Islam, and anyone whom You wish
to die from among us, let him die in belief and faith’
After
reciting the above supplication, the fourth Takbeer should be said. Then one
should salute in both directions.
If the deceased is a child then
instead of the aforementioned supplication the following supplication should be
recited if a boy:-
اَللّٰھُمَّ اجْعَلْہُ لَنَا فَرَ طًا وَّ
اجْعَلْہُ لَنَا اَجْرًا وَّ ذُخْرًا
وَّ اجْعَلْہُ لَنَا شَافِعًا وَّ مُشَفَّعًا
‘O
Allah, make him our forerunner and make him for us a reward and a treasurer;
make him one who will plead for us, and accept his pleading’
If the deceased is a girl then the following should be recited: -
اَللّٰھُمَّ اجْعَلْہُ لَنَا فَرَ طًا وَّ
اجْعَلْہُ لَنَا اَجْرًا وَّذُخْرًا وَّ اجْعَلْہُ لَنَا شَافِعَۃً وَّ مُشَفَّعًا
‘O
Allah, make her our forerunner and make her for us a reward and a treasure;
make her one who will plead for us, and accept her pleading’
KHWAJA SHAMSUDDIN AZEEMI
Mehrāj means to enter the world of the unseen. When a believer attains Mehrāj through prayer, Angels appear in front of him. He travels through the Heavens, and through the blessings of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) he comes to know his Lord.
