5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

The salât of janâza has two farâid (fards):
1 - To make the tekbîr (to say Allahuakber) four times.
2 - To perform it standing. It is not permissible to perform it
sitting or on a beast without any ’udhr (excuse, imperfection,
inability to perform an act in the prescribed manner). It is
permissible if you cannot get down from your beast because of
rain or mud.
The salât of janâza has three sunnats:
1 - To say the Subhânaka.
2 - To say the Salawât. For, it is the sunna of prayers to say
the Salawât before prayers.
3 - To say the ones you know of the prayers that have been
prescribed for (entreating Allah for) mercy and forgiveness for
yourself, for the dead person, and for all Muslims.
The salât of janâza is not performed for four kinds of
Muslims:
1 - For bâghîs, that is, for rebels; that is, if those who revolt
unjustly against the Khalîfa are killed while fighting, their salât is
not performed. Nor is it necessary to wash them.
2- When bandits who waylay Muslims are killed in a fight,
they are not washed and their salât is not performed.
If the bâghîs and the bandits escape and then are killed
during such chastisements as hadd and qisâs, they are
washed and their salât is performed.
3 - If clans notorious for their cruelty are killed in a fight their
salât is not performed.
4 - If an armed person raiding a house is killed in the act, his
salât is not performed.
A suicide, that is, a person who has killed himself, is washed
and his salât is performed even if he died immediately. It is
written in Hindiyya that suicide is more sinful than killing
someone else.
When a person who has killed his mother or father is killed
by qisâs (taliation) his salât is not performed.
Each of the four tekbîrs of the salât of janâza is like a rak’at.
The hands are lifted up to the ears only with the first tekbîr.
They are not lifted with the next three tekbîrs. After both hands
are fastened, the Subhânaka is recited, and the words, “Wa
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