5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

that it is permissible in Hanafî Madhhab to make mausoleums
or buildings over the graves of savants and great men of the
religion in order to protect them. This is written also in Mîzân
and at the end of Uqûd-ud-durriyya. But it is harâm to make
them for adornment. It is permissible to protect the grave by
making a stone and cement wall or iron railing around it.
It is permissible to place tombstones over graves. It is not
permissible to inscribe âyats, blessed names, poems, eulogies,
the word Fâtiha or to put the dead person’s picture on the
stone. Such things are bad bid’ats, though they have been done
for years. Bad customs are not necessarily permissible. They
(savants) said that it is permissible to write the person’s name
and the hijri date of his death on the tombstone.
When an expectant mother dies, if the child is alive, her
womb is cleaved on the left side and the child is taken out. If an
expectant mother’s child dies inside the womb and if it will
cause the mother’s death, an obstetrician inserts her hand
through the vagina, cuts the child to pieces with her
implements, and takes it out. If (it is feared that) the child will
cause the mother’s death though it is alive, it is not permissible
to cut [kill] the child. For, it is not known for certain that it will
cause the mother’s death; it is an anticipated probability. It is
not permissible to kill a human being to prevent an anticipated
danger. If a person swallows someone else’s property and then
dies, and if he has no other property to pay for it, his abdomen
is cleft and the property is taken out.
There is more thawâb for men in attending their neighbor’s,
relative’s or friend’s funeral than in performing supererogatory
worship.
It is mustahab to bury the janâza in the city where he or she
died. It is permissible to take the corpse to a two or four
kilometre distance. The janâzas of Ya’qûb and Yûsuf ‘alaihim
as-salâm’ (the Prophets Jacob and Joseph) were transported
from Egypt to Damascus, but transportation (of corpses) was
permissible in their Sharî’as (canon laws). It is written in the fifth
volume of Radd-ul muhtâr that transportation is not permissible
after the burial. It is bâtil (invalid) to will (in your last request) to
be transported to somewhere else.
When you meet a young or old male member or an old
female member of a bereaved family it is sunna to afford
consolation to him. The condolatory statement is a certain
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