5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

and the tasbîhs of the salât this time for the sake of performing
the salât of janâza as soon as possible. There shall be glad
tidings for those muadhdhins who will eradicate this wrong
practice by saying the Âyat-al kursî and the tasbîhs when there
is a janâza (corpse), too. Please see the final part of the
fourteenth chapter (How Do We Perform The Salât) of the
fourth fascicle].
It is not permissible to pray beside the coffin after the salât of
janâza is performed. It is written in Zubdat-ul-maqâmât “After
the salât of janâza for Hadrat Imâm Rabbânî ‘qaddas-Allâhu
ta’âlâ sirrah-ul-’azîz’ was performed, they did not stay there to
pray; he was taken directly to the cemetery. It is written in books
of fiqh that it is makrûh to pray standing after the salât of
janâza. Some imâms do so, but it is against the sunna.” [It is
written in the fatwâ of Bezâziyya also that it is not permissible].
16 – CARRYING THE CORPSE and the BURIAL
To carry the corpse, you first take the front, right hand side
of the corpse on your right shoulder and walk ten steps. Then,
taking the hind part of the coffin where the (corpse’s) right leg
is, you carry it for ten more steps. Then, changing to the left
hand side of the corpse, which is the right hand side of the
coffin when looked from the rear, you carry it on your left
shoulder, ten steps by the front and ten steps by the back of the
coffin. All these add up to forty steps. A hadîth-i sherîf declares,
“If a person carries the janâza (corpse) for forty steps, forty
of his grave sins shall be forgiven.”
When seeing a janâza, Muslims who happen to be in a
store, in a cafe, etc. should at least carry it forty steps, walk
behind it for a while, and say the Fâtiha and other prayers for
his soul. It is written in Marâqil-falâh and Halabî-i kabîr that
when seeing the janâza it is tahrîmî makrûh to stand up and
wait with your face towards it. After carrying the janâza you
should walk behind it.
Rasûlullah (sallallâhu ’alaihi wasallam) carried the janâza of
Sa’d bin Mu’âz (radiyallâhu ’anh). What a great fortune!
It is makrûh to carry the janâza in a manner called baynal
’amûdein, which means two people carrying it, one person in
front and the other in back, similar to carrying a stretcher. It is
sunna to carry it in a manner called terbî’ (four-sided) as is
being done today, that is, on the shoulders and by holding on to
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