Al-Sayyid Al-Allamah Al-Hujjah Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah Awad al-Mu’ayyidi May Allah preserve him

Question: A student of knowledge may face a problem: he is often compelled to attend condolence gatherings, and the deceased may be one who abandoned prayer. Customarily, the student is the one who recites and supplicates at such gatherings and...

Question: An openly sinful person may die and people gather for condolences. We sometimes refrain from attending to avoid reciting over the sinful deceased. However, those of an opposing madhhab may exploit our absence by attending and preaching. What do...

Question: If the family of the deceased are openly sinful, is it permissible to offer them condolences?

Question: A man found several graves in his farm when he dug deep with a loader. What should he do with them?

Question: Guides also encounter in some areas graves by house doorways, and the residents have no route except across those graves. They ask the guides about this—what should they answer? Should those graves be relocated to empty places? Should the...

Question: What is your view on raising graves with construction, and on placing marble plaques inscribed with the deceased’s name on the grave? We have heard much talk about this.

Question: A highway passed through a valley between two mountains. The engineers plotted its course through a cemetery. After we tried to divert the route from over the cemetery, the engineers shifted it slightly but were forced to pass over...

Question: If the deceased bequeathed that he be buried in a particular place, or that a particular man should perform the funeral prayer over him, must his heirs fulfill his bequest? Is it permissible for them to contravene it by...

Question: Is it permissible to pray over a deceased person who used to be lax about insulting others and exposing the thigh?

Question: A woman married and was steadfast upon piety. Then she died suddenly, and people began circulating talk that she had drunk poison. Before her death, she had asked some of her relatives for forgiveness. Is it permissible to supplicate...