5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

the wooden shafts. You do not pass the shaft between your arm
and your shoulder; you hold it by the shaft with your hand and
take it on your shoulder. It is not permissible to carry the janâza
on your back or on a beast’s back.
[Unless there is a strong necessity, it is kerîh (repugnant,
unbecoming) to carry the janâza on a carriage or in a car, which
is a disbelievers’ custom; it tortures and harms the dead person;
those who carry it in this manner become sinful. It is a grave sin
to abandon Islamic customs and adopt disbelievers’ customs.
During the times of our Prophet (sallallâhu ’alaihi wasallam) and
the Sahâba (’alaihimurridwân) corpses were carried only in a
manner called terbî’. If government regulations order the coffin
to be carried on a hearse, obedience is necessary.]
A suckling, or a child slightly bigger, can be carried by one
person, on both hands. This person (carrying the child’s corpse)
may as well be on an animal. Big children are carried in coffins.
The janâza must be carried with such speed as not to joggle
the corpse.
It is makrûh to delay the janâza till after Friday prayer so that
the jamâ’at will be large. If it is feared that Friday prayer may be
missed because of the time spent for the burial, then the salât
of janâza can be delayed till after Friday prayer. [It is not
permissible to delay the janâza till the following day so that his
relatives living in distant places will be present too].
The salât of ’Iyd is performed before the salât of janâza, and
the salât of janâza is performed before the khutba of ’Iyd.
People waiting for the salât of janâza in the musallâ do not
stand up before the janâza is put on the ground. It is written in
Surrat-ul-fatâwâ, “Those who sit in the musallâ should not
stand up when the janâza is brought there.”
Those who attend a funeral should walk close behind the
janâza. It is sunnat-i muakkada to attend a funeral. According to
Shâfi’î Madhhab you walk ahead of the janâza. Women do not
attend funerals. The janâza is carried silently. It is bid’at, sinful
to say tekbîrs, tehlîls, ilâhîs loudly. You should not forsake a
funeral that has such bid’ats, but you should prevent them if
possible. However, it is necessary to give up a feast that has
such bid’ats. Though it is permissible to walk in front of the
janâza or beside it, it is better to walk behind it.
It is permissible to have one’s grave dug while one is alive. If
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