Citizens and residents in the state expressed their commitment to the precautionary measures, by not allowing others to participate in burying their dead, performing funeral prayers for them, and setting up mourning tents to limit the spread of the Corona virus, noting that they have published their phone numbers on the Social Media and WhatsApp groups. AB "to receive condolences" remotely "by phone, to prevent mixing, and to preserve the health and safety of all.
Citizens Jassem Obeid, Abdullah Irfan, Badr Al-Khaled, Residents Salah Al-Saeed, Mahmoud Al-Hani and Raed Labd said that the procedures for burying their dead were limited to a few first-degree relatives, with follow-up from friends, acquaintances, and lovers across the communication sites, interspersed with many phrases Pray for mercy for the deceased.
They added that they avoided setting up mourning tents in compliance with the precautionary measures to avoid the spread of the Corona virus as part of health preventive measures. They only received condolences on social media.
They explained that they had published their phone numbers on the "Social Media" and via WhatsApp groups, to receive condolences from those wishing to console them, noting that a number of people asked to come to the house to pay their respects, but they refused, in compliance with the precautionary measures.
They made clear that they were committed to the procedures for separation and not to receive any comfort from others, and they refused the participation of non-relatives in burial procedures and prayers at the funeral.
And they added: "In the event that the precautionary measures are lifted after the Corona virus is completely eliminated, relatives and friends can go to the cemetery to perform the funeral prayer on the grave of the dead."
For his part, the director of the Ifta’s Department in Dubai, Dr. Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad, said: “Praying for a dead Muslim is to be sufficient for the living, such as washing, shrouding and burying them. The obligatory prayer is waived by one man's prayer, so whoever performs it has performed the imposition of sufficiency and the embarrassment has fallen for the rest. And whoever misses the prayer upon him for fear of the epidemic, and he wants not to prohibit the reward by praying upon him, then the reward is great, as is true in the hadith about the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace: (Whoever attends the funeral until he prays, he has a carat, and whoever testifies until burial has two carats) was said : And what carats? He said: (Like the two great mountains).
He made it clear that whoever is keen on the reward and the benefit of the dead through intercession for him, then he may pray on him absent while he is in his home, even if he is far from the country of the dead, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, prayed on the Negus - may God be pleased with him - on the day of his death while he was in Medina and the Negus in Habasha .
He pointed out that the one who attended the graveyard, and the deceased was buried, prayed upon him while he was in his grave, as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, did regarding the woman who died and was buried by the companions, may God be pleased with them at night; He, peace and blessings be upon him, when he learned of her death in the morning, said, “Show me her grave.” So her grave came and he prayed over her.
He made it clear that this prayer is a prayer for the dead present; Because he stood on his grave, and the permissibility of praying for the dead for those who had not prayed upon him present or absent, from the time he was fully washed and shrouded until the beginning of his decomposition, continues.
Community acceptance
Emirates Funeral Service Director Abdullah Hussein Al Marzouqi said that he initiates the publication of the names and numbers of the children, brothers and relatives of the deceased of the first degree through service accounts on the "Social Media" and "WhatsApp", based on their desire.
He stressed the importance of spreading the culture of condolence from a distance, over the phone, after it was not possible to set up tents of condolences and participate in praying for the dead and attending the burial.
He added that the service is acceptable to a wide range of society members.
And that some people wonder about the place of burial and consolation, informing them that they must adhere to precautionary measures, condolence on the phone, and not to go to cemeteries or homes.
Ahmad Al-Haddad: “The prayer of the absent on the dead in the house is permissible.”