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alhamdulillah
how to
wash a
deceased now with the grace of
Allah it's a very very easy
process there's no complications in it
and it's not tracked science simply
because as we've stated earlier whenever
the need for something is huge and great
Allah makes it
easy we all have to breathe so we find
air everywhere no problem you just
inhale air that
is
and water is also hugely needed but much
less than air so we can find it but we
need to put a bit of more effort to that
so when we come to the issue of washing
a disease
the one who is chosen to wash the
deceased should be someone who's
trustworthy of good character has
knowledge of the rulings
oful and how it's done according to the
Sunnah someone who's trustworthy so that
he would not go out to the public and
say oh man that guy I washed he had
these and that in him and I saw bad
things and it was smelly and so those
related to him would be
offended those who do not know him May
suspect that he was an evil person and
this is why Allah punished him by such
exposure uh of his bad things but all of
this is not true so the issue is that
the person that was uh um or is supposed
to walk a deceased has to be trustworthy
and
knowledgeable and who
is
more deserving has precedents who would
should be
prioritized the
closest to the deceased his next of kin
so his father his son his
grandfather his siblings and so the
closest to him should be appointed to
wash the corpse of a
deceased as long as they have knowledge
in doing so
otherwise which
is in a lot of the
cases a lot of us have weak hearts and
would not want to do this so someone
else would do that who is more
knowledgeable uh uh for doing this now
what is the ruling
for or on women washing off men or men
washing off women this is something that
is totally
prohibited
men wash men women wash women except for
a man washing his wife or a wife washing
her
husband the prophet s alaihi wasallam
indicated that this is permissible
unlike some schools of
thought which go against the Sunnah and
claim that once a person is dead then
there is no relationship between him and
his wife and the marriage bond is broken
so she cannot touch him this is totally
Bogus the prophet said to
Mother what harm will it do to you if
you die before me and I take care of you
wash you and shroud you so this is
something that the prophet Sall
wasallam taught us that it is totally
permissible and we know that when the
prophet died his companions washed him
mother AA said may Allah be pleased with
him if I had known before what I know
now one would have washed the prophet no
one would have washed the prophet except
his
wives so this is the Sunnah and
as or may Allah be pleased with her and
she is a great female companion who was
married to jaur AB Talib and when he was
martyred she married Abu Bakr sik the
khif of the prophet wasam and when when
he died she married Al Talib may Allah
be pleased with them all and she was the
one who washed her husband Abu Bakr ass
sik and also Ali ABI Talib washed his
wife Fatima may Allah be pleased with
them all
now is it permissible for a Muslim to
wash a
disbeliever a
cafir there is a difference of opinion
among Scholars and the most likely
authentic opinion is that a Muslim must
not have anything to do with a
disbeliever preparation such as washing
shrouding burial and burial even if he
was a relative of his like a father or a
mother because Allah says in the Quran
oh you who have uh uh believed
do not make allies of people which are
with whom Allah has become
angry and also Allah says in the Quran
and do not pray the funeral prayer oh
Muhammad over any of them who has died
ever or stand at his grave indeed they
disbelieved in Allah and this was
regarding the Hypocrites that the
prophet was ordered not to pray or to
ask Allah for forgiveness for
them may Allah have mercy on his soul
says if the prophet was prevented from
offering funeral prayer or to stand by
their graves and to pray for them then
anything less such as washing shrouding
or burying them would be as well uh
something that is prohibited
now when we want to
wash a deceased we have to prepare pure
water and we have to do this in a
concealed place not in an open place
where every Tom Dick and Harry could
watch and no one should attend the
washing of the deceased except someone
who should be present someone who is
needed his Services is needed someone
who will participate and contribute in
washing the
deceased so we would like to wash a
deceased who is lying in front of us
what to
do first of all we have to lay him down
on a suitable High uh um place a
platform so that he could be washed on
on it in a disclosed place where people
could not see him then we have to cover
his his private part has to be
covered and then we strip him of his
clothes of course with the exception of
his private parts and then we made him
sit a little bit by raising his head as
much as possible and this is done so
that if there is any waste in his
stomach would come off or come out from
his private part and we squeeze his
stomach to ensure that anything of waste
would come while washing the body while
the water is running so that the waste
the feces the urine everything comes out
with the water the running water and we
wash his private parts as we usually do
when we uh answer the call of nature
defecate urinate by wrapping a cloth on
your left hand and you wash his private
parts to ensure that there is nothing uh
there after doing your level best to
empty his uh stomach from any such
uh
filth
then we of course the intention is to
wash the deceased and we say
bismah the person doing the washing
should do the steps of woodo to the
deceased washing the
hands wiping over the lips and the nose
because we can't Ren his mouth and nose
because this would cause
water to enter his stomach and then this
is not something uh good so just wiping
over the mouth and the nose then washing
the face then um uh the hands
then wiping over the uh head and then we
also wash his beard and his head
with uh what is known as um lutus
leaves Sid and this is known leaves that
would purify and cleanse and nowadays we
have uh uh
soap and soaps would do the same um
ruling and then after washing his head
thoroughly and his beard we wash the
whole body beginning with the right side
first then the left side first then the
back and we ensure that the whole body
is was washed thoroughly of course
because he's dead he's lying on his back
so we have to turn him to the right wash
his back then put him back again turn
them to the left people helping you wash
his back from the other side and ensure
that all of this is done while having a
piece of cloth or a sponge on your hand
to avoid direct contact when not needed
and to thoroughly cleanse and wash the
body once is mandatory a whole wash and
three is highly recommended to wash this
same process three times to ensure that
everything is uh uh
pure it is um highly recommended in the
third and last wash to use uh what's
known as Kaur Cur uh in the water for
the last washing this as Scholars say
gives the body sort of stiffness and the
OD of it would keep um insects and the
likes away from the the the Sease and it
gives it a
smell some Scholars say that it is
recommended to clip the nails and trim
the
mustache and uh uh and and the likes but
I could not find
any evidence to support this and there
isn't anything that I would know to
support it but this is what Scholars uh
uh have suggested and
recommended as for the female who has
long hair it should be braided into
three braids and to throw to be thrown
behind her
back what
if we are stranded and there is no water
to wash the deceased with as in the
places of
catastrophe plane wrecks or whatever
we're in a place that there is not
enough water to wash the deceased with
or what if the corpse of the deceased is
completely torn off burnt badly damaged
that we cannot wash it because it would
fall off in this case we
perform for the deceased uh uh and do
the wiping of the hands and the face to
the best of our ability now the Sunnah
is that people should
those who were involved in washing the
deceased should perform
afterwards because the prophet in in a
Hadith said whoever washed a deceased
person let him
do
and
Scholars dispute whether this was
abreg or remains that it is it is best
to do so because it's not something that
is difficult or harmful
inshallah what about if a the person who
died was a martyr and he died at the
battlefield Martyrs who died at the
battlefield not at the
hospital not at back home they died in
the battlefield on the battlefield these
are not
washed they're not shrouded in different
clothes rather they are to be buried as
they are in their own
clothes and it is they're not also
offered funeral
prayer because this is what the prophet
didat in the Mars of uh the Battle of
uhud he ordered them to be buried in
their blood in their own clothes and he
did not offer the funeral prayer how to
shroud a deceased the ruling on
shrouding a deceased is
done or learned from the Hadith of the
pilgrim who who was thrown off the back
of his camel and broke his neck the
prophet said shroud him in two pieces of
cloth a lower garment and an upper
garment that would cover his entire body
this is the Sunnah so
if there was only one garment and we're
talking about extreme cases and in this
case we should cover as much as possible
of his body beginning from the upper
part and whatever is left then we should
cover it with whatever leaves of of of
trees or plantations that has a pleasant
fragrance to it
as this was what had happened
with may Allah be pleased with him at
the time of the
Prophet now if the deceased was in the
state of then as mentioned earlier he's
shrouded in his in two pieces of his
clothes but without covering the head
the head must not be covered because the
prophet saidat wasam do not cover his
head so the Sunnah in normal
people men should be shrouded in three
pieces of
garment and women should be shrouded in
five pieces of cloth one to cover the
lower um part of the body known as um
isar and the other one is to cover the
upper part of the body knows known as um
the head cover um which is thear and
then we have the Kam which covers the
upper
body unlike thear that covers the head
and then the two outer wrappers that
would cover the full body this is the
Sunnah five some people say no five is
too much we use three some use a little
bit more a little bit less the all all
is fine and the best is that it should
be white and the fabric can uh best is
to be in
Cotton but if there is no cotton one
wants to use something else then again
there is no problem in
that
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