5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

the grave is on your property (land), it will belong to you. If it is
not in your property or if you have not bought your grave in the
cemetery, someone else may be buried there as well.
It is necessary and sunna and very useful to bury the corpse
in a large cemetery. It must be buried near (the graves of) sâlihs
(pious Muslims) and Awliyâ ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim
ajma’în.’ The grave must be far away from the graves of sinners
and fâjirs and, especially, from the graves of disbelievers and
renegades. It is not good to bury the corpse at a dank place. It
must be buried at a dry place if possible. Burying it at a dank
place causes it to rot fast. In Islam the corpse should rot late. If
the earth is dank or loose it is good to bury the corpse in a
coffin.
To carry flowers and garlands with the janâza, to put them
on the grave, to wear badges, signs and pictures of mourning
are disbelievers’ customs. It is harâm for Muslims to do such
things, and they are harmful to the dead person, too. It is
declared in a hadîth-i sherîf, which is transmitted by Ibn Mâja
and written in Kunûz-ud deqâiq: “Do not take the janâza (to
the cemetery) with noise, fire, lights or other things.” It is
good to lay a piece of silk or other kind of cloth on a grave that
is in a room-like tomb, or to sprinkle rose leaves on the cloth,
and thus to give it an odorous scent. That this is permissible is
written in the Persian book Tahqîq-ul haqq-il mubîn, by
Ahmad Sâ’îd-i Serhendî ’rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh.’
It is fard-i kifâya to dig a grave and to bury the corpse in the
grave. [If the number of Muslims required to bury the corpse is
not sufficient, it will then become fard for anyone who has been
informed of the death to be present at the burial ceremony. If
nobody can be found to do the service free and paid gravediggers
are hired, then every Muslim who didn’t serve despite
having information will be sinful. They will become fâsiqs. To
bury the corpse, like performing the salât of janâza, is an
’ibâdat. It is fard to do such an ’ibâdat free of charge. Any
payment received will become harâm. It is permissible for poor
people to do such a fard in return for money if nobody can be
found to do such a service free and in order to avoid the risk of
not providing the service to Muslim corpses. Payment received
by these people will become halâl, but those who shun from the
service will not escape the fisq; they will become sinful. Since
burying the deceased person’s body into soil is fard, anyone
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