Loss and condolences

Calamity, death, burial and visiting graves

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What to encourage the dying person to say

#153i.e. those around the sick should instruct and encourage him to say the shahadah. (He whose last words are: (None has the right to be worshipped except Allah.) will enter Paradise.)

Invocation for when tragedy strikes

#154To Allah we belong and unto Him is our return.O Allah, recompense me for my affliction and replace it for me with something better.

Invocation for closing the eyes of the dead

#155(O Allah, forgive -here the name of the deceased is mentioned- and raise his rank among the rightly guided, and be a successor to whom he has left behind, and forgive us and him O Lord of the worlds. Make spacious his grave and illuminate it for him.)(A successor: one who succeeds another due to the latter’s absence or death. This is the correct meaning of the word khaleefah; thus, it is incorrect to believe that Adam is the khaleefah (vicegerent, as is commonly translated) of Allah on earth because Allah is never absent, and will never die. This supplication proves the correct understanding of this term and shows that Allah succeeds us and guards whom we leave behind when we die or are absent (also refer to supplication #198).)

Invocations for the dead in the Funeral prayer

Invocations for a child in the Funeral prayer

Invocation for the bereaved

#162(Verily to Allah, belongs what He took and to Him belongs what He gave, and everything with Him has an appointed time…and then he ordered for her to be patient and hope for Allah’s reward.)(The words (faltasbir waltahtasib) are commands in the feminine 3rd person form, so they will need to be changed in respect to whom is being addressed.)

Invocation to be recited when placing the dead in his grave

#163In the name of Allah and upon the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah.

Invocation to be recited after burying the dead

#164O Allah, forgive him. O Allah, strengthen him

Invocation for visiting the graves

#165Peace be upon you all, O inhabitants of the graves, amongst the believers and the Muslims. Verily we will, Allah willing, be united with you, we ask Allah for well-being for us and you.