Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

fourth and fifth fascicles of Endless Bliss.
Supposing a person was cut in half (vertically) and one half of
the corpse has been found, namâz of janâza need not be performed
for that found half.
Supposing they found a corpse torn in pieces and the pieces are
here and there; again namâz of janâza for the owner of the pieces
need not be performed. However, the namâz should be performed
if the pieces have been brought together.
If a corpse has been washed and yet they say that one of the
limbs is dry; that limb must be washed if the corpse has not been
shrouded yet. On the other hand, supposing they say, after the
janâza has been brought near the grave, that one of the limbs of
ablution of the corpse has been left dry; they wash that limb and
thereafter perform the namâz of janâza. If they say so after the
corpse has been interred; in that case the corpse must not be
exhumed. If (it is found out after interment that) the corpse was
not washed; then the corpse must be taken out and washed, if the
burial has not been done yet.
Supposing you made the corpse make a tayammum and
thereafter find water as you are carrying the corpse (in the coffin);
you have an option.
Supposing a number of people are dead at the same time in a
town; it is permissible to perform a single namâz for all of them. It
goes without saying that it should be done in agreement with the
Islamic rules. It is better, however, to perform a namâz for each
and every one of them separately.
Niyyat for a namâz of janâza must be made like this: “(I make
my niyyat) to perform namâz for the grace of Allâhu ta’âlâ, to
pronounce benedictions over the male [or female] Muslim, and to
follow the imâm who is present and (who is) to conduct the
namâz.”
Supposing a person is arrested as he is robbing the travellers
and killed upon the judge’s or the walî’s decision or a rebel is killed
as he is fighting against the state or a person (is killed because he)
has killed his own parents; namâz of janâza is not performed for
the (killed) culprit in any of these three instances.
Namâz of janâza is performed for a suicide, i.e. for a person
who killed himself (Durr-ul-mukhtâr).
Sunnî Muslims have ten characteristics:
1– The Sunnî Muslim will be a regular mosque-goer to join the
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