5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

performed for all of them if most of them are known to be
Muslims. And all of them are buried in a cemetery for Muslims.
If the numbers (of the Muslims and disbelievers) are equal or if
the Muslims are in a minority, all of them are washed and
shrouded, the salât of janâza is performed by making the niyya
(intention) for the Muslim ones only, and they are all buried in a
cemetery for disbelievers.
When there is no water the tayammum is made on the
corpse and then the janâza salât is performed. If water is found
afterwards, it must be washed, but the salât is not performed
again. Likewise, when a living person finds water he does not
repeat the salât (which he performed with a tayammum
because he did not find any water). It is mustahab for a person
who will wash a corpse to make a ghusl himself first. It is
makrûh for a junub person or a menstruating woman to wash a
corpse. Water with which a corpse is washed becomes mâ-i
musta’mel. It becomes najs, foul. Therefore those who wash it
must not let water splash on them or must wrap themselves in
large bath towels. When washed, the corpse becomes clean.
It is said in Bahr-ur-râiq that a deceased person’s shroud is
prepared like the clothes which he used to wear when he was
alive. Therefore, poor women are wrapped in izâr, lifâfa, and
khimar, kafan-i kifâya (shroud of minimum cost). It is written in
the book Tabyin-ul hakâik, “A woman’s shroud of minimum
cost is izâr, lifâfa, and khimar, since she would have to wear at
least these pieces of clothing when she was alive. It would be
perfectly permissible to perform salât with these clothings.” It is
said in the book Halabî-i-kebîr, “Women used to cover
themselves with a (kind of dress called) dar’. The front part of
this dress was open up to the breast, and long enough to cover
the legs down to the feet.” [As decribed, during the period of the
Salaf-i-sâlihîn Muslim women used to wear a loose robe, a wide
and long coat, and a head-cover. They did not wear two pieces
of cloth which we call the charshaf.]
It is sunna for a man’s shroud to consist of three parts:
1 - Izâr: It extends from the head to the feet and is more
than a metre wide.
2- Qamîs [a shirt, long like a chemise]: It is twice the length
of the shoulders to feet. It is folded together once in the middle
and the place of the fold is cut long enough to let the head
through. The arm holes and the skirt are not cut.
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