5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

It is sinful to hold meetings incompatible with the Sharî’a for
the dead in mosques and to have a mawlid recited in those
meetings. As it is sinful for women and men to sit together for
other occasions, it is worse for them to come together for a
mawlid. To commit sins in acts of worships is worse than
committing them otherwise. It is for these reasons that it is
forbidden to perform salât at three harâm times. There is no
thawâb for the salât performed at a forbidden time or place, and
it is sinful. For, it has been performed despite the prohibition. It
has been forbidden for women and men to sit together. This
prohibition will be more sinful if it is committed in an act of
worship in mosques.
It is sunna to do telqîn [1] [standing against the qibla and the
grave] after the burial. It has been said (by savants) that it might
as well not be done. It is said in the book Majmâ-ul anhur, “It
was said that it would be possible to do telqîn even after death.
For the soul and wisdom are given back, and the deceased one
understands the telqîn. The same applies in the Madhhab of
Shafi’î. Although some savants argued that telqîn has neither
been commanded nor forbidden, (therefore it is not
permissible), it would be better to do it.” It is written in the book
Jawhara that it would be permissible to do telqîn to the
deceased in the grave. In the book Nûr-ul yaqîn fî mabhas-it
telqîn, it is proved with various evidence that it is sunna to do
the telqîn. It is written in Jilâ-ul qulûb and Ghâliyya that:
“Rasûlullah (’alaihissalâtu wassalâm) commanded telqîn to be
done after the burial. And he himself performed the telqîn.” It is
written in detail in the explanation of the book Birgivî
Vasiyetnamesi by Kadızâde how the telqîn is to be done.
There is no need to do telqîn to people wh o will not be
interrogated in the grave. It is written in Sirâj, “The savants of
Ahl-as sunna unanimously declare that all people will be
questioned in the grave. A dead child will be inspired by Allâhu
ta’âlâ how to answer.” Ibn Abdul Berr and Imâm-i Suyûtî say
that, “Only the Ahl-i qibla will be questioned, whether they be
true Believers or hypocrites.” Accordingly, the report stating that
Hadrat ’Umar was questioned and giving a quotation of his
answers is correct. Muhammad bin Alqamî, a disciple of Suyûtî,
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Prompting the articles of îmân to the deceased person, so that he may
answer the interrogating angels.
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